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Padovanino [Varotari, Alessandro]
(b Padua, 4 April 1588; d Venice, 20 July 1649). Italian painter. He was the son of Dario Varotari (d 1598), a painter and architect, and of Samaritana, the daughter of Giovan Battista Ponchino. His earliest training is unknown, though Boschini (1674) stated that Padovanino studied by copying the frescoes of Titian in the Scuola di S Antonio, Padua, and other works by the master, above all those of his youth or his early maturity. The influence of Titian remained fundamental to Padovanino’s art. The Incredulity of St Thomas (1610; Padua, S Lucia) is his first dated work and faithfully imitates that of Titian; other youthful works are direct copies, among them The Pentecost (Venice, Accad.) and the Virgin and Child (Padua Cathedral).
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