Marcello Venusti

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Marcello Venusti (1512/5 - 1579) was an Italian Mannnerist painter active in Rome in mid 1500s.

Native to Como, he was reputed to have been a pupil of Perino del Vaga. He is known for a scaled copy of the Michelangelo's Last Judgement done in the master's liftime and meeting his approval. His painting of Christ in the Garden is in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj.

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  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p485 Penguin Books Ltd. 
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