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FLORIGERIO, Sebastiano - b. ~1500 Conegliano, d. 1543 Udine - WGA

FLORIGERIO, Sebastiano

(b. ~1500 Conegliano, d. 1543 Udine)

Sebastiano Florigerio (also Florigorio), Italian painter pupil and probably son-in-law of Pellegrino da San Daniele. He was active in Udine (from 1524), Padua, and Cividale, and elsewhere. He was one of the gifted Friulian masters, yet some of his figures look as though they have been cut out of other paintings and inserted into a new scene. Some of his work is reminiscent of Dossi.

Portrait of Raffaele Grassi
Portrait of Raffaele Grassi by

Portrait of Raffaele Grassi

The few works by this painter to have survived immediately remind us of Pordenone because of the impassioned way the figures are arranged and a characteristic tendency to make the forms ample, almost swollen, thus giving us the presentiment of a freer, almost seventeenth-century use of the line.

In this painting, which for a time was thought to be the portrait of the famous architect and sculptor Sansovino, was later recognized as Raffaele Grassi, father of the painter and architect Giovanbattista.

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