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BARTOLOMMEO CARDUCCI (156o-161o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 326 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARTOLOMMEO

CARDUCCI (156o-161o)  ,
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Italian painter, better known as CARDUCHO, the
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Spanish corruption of his Italian patronymic, was born in Florence, where he studied architecture and sculpture under Ammanati, and
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painting under Zuccaero . The latter master he accompanied to
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Madrid, where he painted the ceiling of the
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Escorial library, assisting also in the production of the frescos that adorn the cloisters of that famous palace . He was a
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great favourite with Philip III., and lived and died in Spain, where most of his
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works are to be found . The most celebrated of them is a Descent from the
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Cross, in the church of
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San Felipe el Real, in Madrid . His younger
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brother VINCENZO (1568-1638), was born in Florence, and was trained as a painter by Bartolommeo, whom he followed to Madrid . He worked a great
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deal for Philip III. and Philip IV., and his best pictures are those he executed for the former monarch as decorations in the Prado . Examples of his
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work are preserved at Toledo, at
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Valladolid, at
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Segovia, and at several other Spanish cities . For many years he laboured in Madrid as a teacher of his
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art, and among his pupils were Giovanni Ricci, Pedro Obregon, Vela, Francisco Collantes, and other distinguished representatives of the Spanish school during the 17th century . He was also author of a
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treatise or
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dialogue, De
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las Excelencias de laPintura, which was published in 1633 .

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