![]() M.'s activities as "sopraintendente delle. In 1578 he formed a partnership with Bartolomeo Breggio for the production of prints after some of his own compositions, including the Six Penitent Saints engraved by Cort. 1573-5, seven compositions of 'Penitent Saints in Landscapes' engraved by Cort. 1569, licence to publish engravings of Trajan's Column (. He obtained a papal privilege (1569) and organized partnerships for the publication of 130 plates of the reliefs of Trajan's Column, the Historia utriusque belli Dacici a Trajano Caesare gesti of 1576. 1565, contract for decoration of the Contarelli Chapel in S. Caterina de' Funari, were executed immediately after M.'s employment by Cardinal d'Este. ![]() According to Borghini, the vault and laterals and altarpiece of 'Lamentation over Dead Christ', in 2nd chapel on r. Desplaces with inscription giving location as Rheims Cathedral. At least five paintings of this subject are recorded, one of which may be that engraved in reverse by G.L. recorded as in service of Cardinal Ippolito d Este, for whom he worked in his two Roman palaces, Monte Giordano and Montecavallo (Quirinal), and also in the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, payment by the Cardinal to M.'s assistants for a 'Christ washing the Disciples' Feet'. 1560, proposed for Virtuosi al Pantheon, but election postponed because unknown to members then present, M. Fresco and stucco decoration of 4th chapel on l.Frescoes and 'stucchi' destroyed altarpieces in Museo dell' Opera del Duomo. A second altarpiece, 'Christ carrying the Cross', completed by 30 Apr. Īccording to the 'Vita', the 'Raising of Lazarus', now Vatican Pinacoteca, preceded the com mission for an altarpiece of this subject for Orvieto Cathedral, contract 17 Nov. Caterina della Ruota, 'Angel warning Joseph to fly into Egypt' and two 'Prophets' in lunette above. At first celebrated for his landscapes (Baglione), he spent the next five or six years perfecting himself as a figure painter. ![]() A biography (referred to here as 'Vita') written by his confessor and datable 1584/5, according to Procacci who first published it, establishes his date of birth and reveals that from the age of 12 he studied first in Padua, where he met Lamberto Fiammingo (Sustris) and Domenico Campagnola, and then in Venice. Painter, draughtsman and print publisher: worked closely with engravers, especially Beatrizet and Cort. ![]()
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