Polidoro De Renzi - Artist Info

About Polidoro De Renzi

Name variants

Polidoro Lanciano, Polidoro Lanzani
  • Biography

    Artist Polidoro De Renzi was born in 1515.

    There is no information on the artistic education of the young Polidoro de Renzi, the only certain testimony is from 1536, when his name was registered in the Fraglia dei Veneziani Painters.

    In the lagoon city he certainly attended the workshop of Tiziano Vecellio, as his Sacred Conversations attest but his presence in the cadorino's atelier has not been historically confirmed, where his art also appears influenced by Paris Bordon and Bonifacio de Pitati.

    In the 1540's he fired his only documented work, the altarpiece depicting The Descent of the Holy Spirit, intended for the main altar of the church of the same name on the Zattere (Ve...

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