Polidoro da Caravaggio

Biography

Presentation of Polidoro Caldara by Vasari in Quickly the

" The last golden age, it is the name which because of his highly skilled personalities and his noble artists one can give to the happy age Leon X. Among the spirit more distinguished is there Pulidoro da Caravaggio, Lombard which did not have its talent with a long study, but that nature had created painter " .

C' is indeed thanks to its innate qualities that Polidoro, although employed to carry the " navette" (container full of lime) with the master masons during the building work of the cabins of the pontifical palate, succeeds in pointing out itself by the brilliances artists of the workshop of Raphaël.

Polidoro develops the taste for painting while seeing working this large Master and is allowed with the number of its pupils. It delivers to work cabins with as well of energy and passion as in little month it gives the proof of its talent by producing works of such a quality that it obtains the glorious reputation of the most beautiful talent of this many team. It binds friendship with the Florentin Maturino and their reciprocal appreciation becomes so strong that in full agreement it start to work together in community of ambitions, purses and companies. While following the example of Baldassarre of His which decorated some frontages, Polidoro and Maturin specialize in this activity which becomes with the mode by decorating a great number of Roman frontages. Polidoro can rightly be regarded as the originator of decorations in " chiaroscuro" (Clearly-obscure).

In 1527 the Sac of Rome by the troops of the emperor Charles Quint pushes Polidoro to be fled. It takes refuge initially in Naples where it paints a figure of Saint Pierre in the principal vault of Holy-Marie-of-Graces and other works as an assistance of other painters. Well quickly Polidoro estimates that in Naples he is not recognized in his right value. It embarks for Messine where more considered, it goes back to the work while working with eagerness and by improving in practice color. Its servant, Tonno Calabrese, assassinate it in order to steal an amount of money to him which it had just received whereas it prepared, rich and recognized, to turn over to Rome.

It had Aurelio Busso (or Buso) of Crema as raises.

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