Francesco Torbido (Venice 1486–1562) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Verona and Venice. He is also known as il Moro.
Francesco Torbido
Francesco Torbido, Self Portrait
Born
1486 (1486)
Died
1562(1562-00-00) (aged 75–76)
Verona, Italy
Occupation
Painter
Biographyedit
He studied in Venice under Giorgione and then went to Verona and married the daughter of Count Zenovello Giusti. In the service of the Count, whose daughter he married, he became a pupil of the painter Liberale da Verona, who adopted him as his heir.[1] In Venice, he painted frescoes of the Life of the Virgin and a Transfiguration. He painted lunettes depicting the Navity and an Assumption of the Virgin in 1534, for the main chapel of the Verona cathedral. Another of his paintings is Virgin and Child in Glory, is in the Church of St. Fermo. He also painted several portraits, including two self-portraits. He painted for the Basilica di San Zeno.
Referencesedit
Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 444.
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Francesco Torbido". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^Le vite de' pittori, degli scultori, et architetti veronesi, by Bartolomeo dal Pozzo (1718), pp. 27-28.
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