Andrea Vicentino was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 or Mannerist

Mannerism

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...

 period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza

Giovanni Battista Maganza

Giovanni Battista Maganza was a late Renaissance Italian painter, from Vicenza, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. He was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio. His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter.- References :...

. Born in Vicenza

Vicenza

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, he was also known as Andrea Michieli or Michelli. He moved to Venice

Venice

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 in the mid-1570s and registered in the “Fraglia” or guild of Venetian painters in 1583. He worked alongside Tintoretto

Tintoretto

Tintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso...

 at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, helping paint Arrival of Henry III at Venice (c. 1593) at the Sala delle Quattro Porte of the Ducal palace, as well as works in the Sala del Senato and dello Scrutinio. He also painted the altarpiece of Madonna of the Rosary (c. 1590) for the cathedral of Treviso

Treviso

Treviso is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 82,854 inhabitants : some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city...

, God the Father with Three Theological Virtues (1598) for the church in Gambara

Gambara

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, and St Charles Borromeo (c. 1605) for a church in Mestre

Mestre

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.Paintings by him exist in a number of galleries including the 'Raising of Lazarus' at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta.