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TISIO (or Tisi), BENVENUTO (1481-1559)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1015 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TISIO (or Tisi), BENVENUTO (1481-1559)  , commonly called Il Garofalo, See also:Italian painter of the Ferrarese school, was See also:born in • See his Reise in den Orient (See also:Leipzig, 1845–1846) . z The See also:MSS. brought to See also:Europe on the first two journeys are catalogued in the Anecdota sacra et profana (Leipzig, 1855, enlarged 1861) . See also the Monumenta sacra inedita (Leipzig, 1846), and Nova collectio of the same (1855–1869) . The 3rd See also:volume of the Nova collectio gives the results of his last Eastern See also:journey . 3 The prolegomena remained unfinished at his See also:death, and have been supplied by C . R . See also:Gregory (cf. his Textkritik See also:des Neuen Testamentes, vol. i., 1900) . - 1481 at Garofolo, in the Ferrarese territory, and constantly used the See also:gillyflower (garofalo) as a See also:symbol with which to sign his pictures . He took to See also:drawing in childhood, and was put to study under Domenico Panetti (or Laneto), and afterwards at See also:Cremona under his maternal See also:uncle Niccolo Soriani, a painter who died in 1499; he also frequented the school of See also:Boccaccio Boccaccino . He stayed fifteen months with Giovanni Baldini in See also:Rome, acquiring a solid See also:style of draughtsmanship, and was two years with Lorenzo See also:Costa at See also:Mantua . He then entered the service of the See also:marquis See also:Francesco See also:Gonzaga . Afterwards he went to See also:Ferrara, and worked there four years .

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Raphael's fame, and invited by a Ferrarese See also:gentleman, Geronimo Sagrato, he again removed to Rome, and found the See also:great painter very amicable; here he stayed two years, rendering some assistance in the Vatican frescoes . From Rome See also:family affairs recalled him to Ferrara; there See also:Duke See also:Alphonso I. commissioned him to execute paintings, along with the Dossi, in the See also:Villa di Belriguardo and in other palaces . Thus the style of See also:Tisio partakes of the Lombard, the See also:Roman and the Venetian modes . He painted extensively in Ferrara, both in oil and in See also:fresco, two of his See also:principal See also:works being the " See also:Massacre of the Innocents " (1519), in the See also:church of S . Francesco, and the " Betrayal of See also:Christ " (1524), accounted his masterpiece . For the former he made See also:clay See also:models for study and a See also:lay figure, and executed everything from nature . He continued constantly at See also:work until in 1550 See also:blindness overtook him, See also:painting on all feast-days in monasteries for the love of See also:God . He had married at the See also:age of See also:forty-eight, and died at Ferrara on the 6th (or 16th) of See also:September 1559, leaving two See also:children . Garofalo combined sacred inventions with some very See also:familiar details . A certain archaism of style, with a strong glow of See also:colour, suffices to distinguish from the true method of Raphael even those pictures in which he most closely resembles the great See also:master—this sometimes very closely; but the work of Garofalo is seldom See also:free from a certain See also:trim pettiness of feeling and manner . He was a friend of Giulio Romano, See also:Giorgione, See also:Titian and See also:Ariosto; in a picture of " See also:Paradise " he painted Ariosto between St See also:Catherine and St See also:Sebastian . In youth he was fond of See also:lute-playing and also of See also:fencing .

He ranks among the best of the Ferrarese painters; his leading See also:

pupil was See also:Girolamo See also:Carpi . The " See also:Adoration of the Magi," in the church of See also:San Giorgio near Ferrara, and a " See also:Peter See also:Martyr," in the Dominican church . Ferrara (sometimes assumed to have been done in rivalry of Titian), are among his principal works not already mentioned . The See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London, contains four, one of them being a Madonna and Christ enthroned, with St See also:Francis and three other See also:saints .

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