Giovanni Battista Zelotti (1526–1578) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

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 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...

, active in Venice

Venice

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 and her mainland territories.

He appears to have been born in Venice

Venice

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, and trained with Antonio Badile

Antonio Badile

Antonio Badile was an Italian painter from Verona. He trained with his uncle Francesco Badile. Along with Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Antonio is known as one of the mentors of Paolo Veronese and Giovanni Battista Zelotti; as well as his father-in-law. Badile is described as continuing the...

 and Domenico Riccio

Domenico Riccio

Domenico Riccio was an Italian painter in a Mannerist style from Verona....

, as well as perhaps Titian

Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576 better known as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near...

. Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati

Paolo Farinati

Paolo Farinati was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in mainly in his native Verona, but also in Mantua and Venice....

. He is called Battista da Verona by Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

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, and was also known as Battista Farinati.

He was a contemporary of Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...

 and shared work in the Villa Soranza near Castelfranco

Castelfranco Veneto

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 (1551) and at Venice: the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace (1553-4); the Biblioteca Marciana

Biblioteca Marciana

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 (1556-7), and the Palazzo Trevisan (1557) on Murano

Murano

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Zelotti came to embody the Veronese tradition on the mainland. He frescoed villas

Palladian Villas of the Veneto

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 designed by Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio was an architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture...

, notably Villa Emo

Villa Emo

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 and Villa Foscari

Villa Foscari

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, where he worked with Bernardino India

Bernardino India

Bernardino India was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, born and mainly active in Verona. He is said to have trained with Domenico Riccio. He collaborated with Michele Sanmicheli in the Canossa palace and Pellegrini chapel in San Bernardino of Verona. He collaborated with Felice...

 and Battista Franco: the exact number of Palladian villas he frescoed is not known. With the painter Giovanni Antonio Fasolo

Giovanni Antonio Fasolo

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 he worked also at Villa Caldogno (about 1570) and at Palazzo Porto Colleoni Thiene. In the 1570s he decorated the castle of the Obizzi family at Battaglia Terme

Battaglia Terme

Battaglia Terme is a town and comune in the Veneto region of Italy, in the province of Padua.Battaglia lies at the easternmost edge of the volcanic Euganean Hills, and has been noted for its warm saline springs and natural vapour grotto since the Middle Ages.-History:The construction of the...

 with 40 frescoes. He also worked in Mantua

Mantua

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 for the house of Gonzaga

House of Gonzaga

The Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708.-History:In 1433, Gianfrancesco I assumed the title of Marquis of Mantua, and in 1530 Federico II received the title of Duke of Mantua. In 1531, the family acquired the Duchy of Monferrato through marriage...

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