Giovanni Battista Zelotti
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Giovanni Battista Zelotti (1526-1578) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories.
He appears to have been born in Verona, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian. Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati. He is called Battista da Verona by Vasari, and was also known as Battista Farinati.
He was a contemporary of Paolo Veronese and shared work in the Villa Soranza near Castelfranco (1551) and at Venice - the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace (1553-4), the Biblioteca Marciana (1556-7), and the Palazzo Trevisan (1557) on Murano. Zelotti came to embody the Veronese tradition on the mainland. He frescoed villas designed by Andrea Palladio, notably Villa Emo and Villa Foscari, where he worked with Bernardino India and Battista Franco: the exact number of Palladian villas he frescoed is not known. In the 1570s he decorated the castle of the Obizzi family at Battaglia Terme with 40 frescoes.[1] He also worked in Mantua for the Gonzaga family.
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- ^ Recently the frescoes at Castello del Catajo have been open to the public (see New York Times, March 13, 2008, Arts section article, by Elisabetta Povoledo titled Out of the Shadows, a Camelot of Italian Knights and Daring Deeds).
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books, pp. 559-560.
- Bernasconi, Cesare (1864). Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica veronese dai medi tempi fino tutto il secolo xviii, Googlebooks, pp 333-334.
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