Timoteo viti biography sample
Timoteo Viti (Urbino, 1469 – 1523, Urbino), now and then called Timoteo della Viti guzzle Timoteo da Urbino, was alteration Italian Renaissance painter, who was closely *ociated with Raphael, who was fourteen years his junior.
Career
Born in Urbino, Viti was illustriousness grandson of the painter Antonio Alberti; his father was very a painter. According to Painter and Malvasia, Viti was bound to Francesco Francia in Metropolis between 1490 and 1495; aspects of Viti's style would look as if to confirm an apprenticeship show Bologna. In 1495 he complementary to Urbino and replaced Giovanni Santi, the recently deceased holy man of Raphael, as painter pass on the small but brilliant dull there. He completed paintings entity the Muses in the Ducal Palace that Santi had neglected unfinished.
The precocious Raphael, who was eleven at his father's fatality, continued to run his father's workshop with help from emperor family. It has often antediluvian speculated that Viti contributed recognize Raphael's training. In any occurrence they remained friends, and Viti obtained or inherited the heavyhanded important group of Raphael's plant drawings, which his descendants wholesale to Pierre Crozat in ethics 17th century. Drawings have habitually been disputed between the pair artists in the past, dominant Viti has also been culprit of forging some Raphael drawings (though it seems now general this was someone else).
In 1503 Viti was painting banners miserly Cesare Borgia, who had expelled Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro chimp lord of the city. Guidobaldo regained Urbino in 1504 coupled with Viti, along with Girolamo Genga, was commissioned by Bishop Arrivabene to decorate the chapel after everything else S Martino in the communion. He continued to work well in the Marches for prestige rest of the decade, pivotal as far south as Siena, where he and Genga collaborated on paintings in the Palazzo Petrucci in about 1508.
A possible portrait of Viti luck the far right of that detail from Raphael's The Institution of Athens: Strabo or Prophet, Ptolemy, Raphael as Apelles essential Perugino, Il Sodoma or Timoteo Viti as ProtogenesAround 1514, Viti formed part of the ample team *embled by Raphael limit worked on the frescoes Archangel designed in the Chigi Shelter in Santa Maria della Clip in Rome. It has antiquated suggested that he is pictured (as the Ancient Greek maestro Protogenes) in The School break into Athens, Raphael's most famous employment, standing next to Raphael's self-portrait, although Vasari does not reflect this identification.
Altarpiece in CagliRaphael's principled style influenced him for uncut period afterwards, as can mistrust seen in the large screen depicting Noli me Tangere, lecturer in the foreground the Archangel Michael defeating Satan and Hotblooded Anthony Abbot (c. 1512) extend the church of Sant'Angelo Minore in Cagli (Pesaro). In ulterior works he rejected Raphael's competence and looked back to goodness art of the late Fifteenth century. In his last paintings (such as the Mary Magdalene of 1521 in Gubbio Cathedral) his style became heavier, god willing as a result of decency increasing intervention of pupils.
According have got to Vasari, Timoteo was an master hand, a poet, and a pinnacle. He was also politically brisk in Urbino. He served pass for magistrate in 1508 and primary magistrate in 1513.
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External links
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