Attributed to Peter Candid / Pieter de Witte
(Bruges c. 1540 - 1628 Munich)
Sacra Conversazione
Oil on wood, 29 x 37 cm
The painter, sculptor and architect Peter Candid, known in Italy as Pietro Candido, was born in Bruges between 1540 and 1548. In the 1560s he stayed in Florence, where he worked in the workshop of Giorgio Vasari, with whom he collaborated on a number of commissions for the House of Medici. After a brief stay in Volterra, he went to Munich in 1586. For the next 42 years, until his death, he remained court painter to Duke William V...
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17th Century Renaissance Auguste Serrure Interior Paintings