Girolamo Muziano (1528-1592), Italian Renaissance painter born at Acquafredda, near Brescia. Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. ... Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. ... In the traditional view, the Renaissance is understood as a historical age that was preceded by the Middle Ages and followed by the Reformation. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... Location within Italy Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy with a population of around 200,000. ...

He began work under the tutelage of Romanino, an imitator of the VenetianTitian. He left Brescia as a young man, and moved to Rome about 1550. There his pictures soon gained for him the surname of Il Giovano de paesi (the young man of the landscapes). A focus on landscape painting was not common to Italian painters of his generation, and would not become more prominent until the arrival of Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino. Girolamo Romani (Romanino) (c. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia), nicknamed the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy. ... Titians self-portrait, 1566. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... The Flight into Egypt (1603) Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560, in Bologna - July 15, 1609, in Rome) was an Italian painter, etcher and engraver. ... Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino) (October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641), Italian painter, born at Bologna, was the son of a shoemaker. ...

He painted historical painting in the Mannerist style of Michelangelo, giving great prominence to the anatomy of his figures, and became fond of painting persons emaciated by abstinence or even disease. His picture of the Resurrection of Lazarus (1555) established his fame. Michelangelo pronounced its author one of the "first artists of that age". It was placed in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, but was afterwards transferred to the Quirinal Palace, and now is in the Vatican Pinacoteca[1]. The painting suffers from overcrowding and a visual cacophony of posing. Chalk portrait of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet. ... Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ... The Quirinal Palace once housed popes, and then kings, and now presidents The Quirinal Palace (known in Italian as the Quirinale) is the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic upon the Quirinal Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome. ...

Muziano, with dogged perseverance (at one time he shaved his head, so as not to be tempted to go out of doors), continued to proceed in the path on which he had entered. He grew excellent in depicting foreign and military costumes, and in introducing landscape into his historical pieces after the manner of Titian. Mosaic working also occupied his attention while he was employed a superintendent at the Vatican. His ability and industry earned him a handsome fortune. Pope Gregory XIII directed him to found the Academy of St Luke (Accademia di San Luca)(painter's guild) in Rome (1577). He died in 1592, and was buried in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Accademia di San Luca, (the Academy of Saint Luke) was founded in Rome in 1593, with the ostensible purpose of giving artists a higher education and the real one of asserting the Churchs control over art, according to Peter Robb, biographer of the pivotal Baroque artist Caravaggio. ... Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ...

Many of Muziano's works are in the churches and palaces of Rome, as well as in Orvieto and Loreto. His landscape frescoes for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este's villas in Rome and Tivoli have since disappeared. In Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome, is one of his chief works, St Jerome preaching to Monks in the Desert; his Circumcision is in the church of the Gesu, his Ascension in the Araceli, and his St Francis receiving the Stigmata in the church of the Conception. A picture by him, representing Christ washing the feet of His disciples, is in the cathedral of Rheims. The site of Orvieto is an Etruscan acropolis. ... Loreto is the Italian word for laurel-wood. ... Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri (English: ) is a basilica built inside the tepidarium of the baths of Diocletian, in Rome. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Façade of the Church of the Gesù. The Church of the Gesù (in Italian, Chiesa del Sacro Nome di Gesù, or Church of the Holy Name of Jesus) is the motherchurch of the Society of Jesus, an order of the Roman Catholic Church, which was the model for innumerable... Reims (English traditionally Rheims) is a city of north-eastern France, 98 miles east-northeast of Paris. ...

Anthology of Works

• Landscape with waterfall (drawing) [2]
• Three paintings [3]

References

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, 344-345 Penguin Books Ltd.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.