Damiano Mazza
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Damiano Mazza (active 1573–1590) was an Italian Renaissance artist. He lived in the Venetian city of Padua, 40 km west of Venice. It is known that he studied under Titian.[1]
Mazza's best-known painting is The Rape of Ganymede in the National Gallery, London, which originally adorned the ceiling of a lawyer's house in Padua. He also painted an icon of the Madonna for the Santuario della Beata Vergine della Porta in Guastalla.
Further reading[]
- Sapienza, Valentina (2008), "MAZZA, Damiano", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian), Treccani, 72
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Categories:
- 16th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Italian Renaissance painters
- Painters from Padua
- Italian painter, 16th-century birth stubs