(b Udine, 27 Oct 1487; d Rome, 1564). Italian stuccoist, painter, draughtsman and architect. In 1502 he was apprenticed to Giovanni Martini (also called Giovanni da Udine; d 1535), a painter in Udine, and subsequently he may have studied with Giorgione in Venice. According to Vasari, armed with a letter of introduction to Baldassare Castiglione, he decided to go to Rome to seek work with Raphael. He joined Raphael’s workshop, where he may have learnt techniques of still-life painting from a Netherlandish colleague. The musical instruments in Raphael’s St Cecilia altarpiece (1516; Bologna, Pin. N.) are often attributed to Giovanni.

• Udine, Giovanni da
  • Grimani: (3) Marino Grimani
  • Rome, §III, 4(i): Art life and organization, 1503–49
  • assistants
    • Perino del Vaga
  • attributions
    • England, §XI, 1(i): Tapestry, before 1590
    • Recco: (1) Giacomo Recco
  • collaboration
    • Chigi: (1) Agostino Chigi (i)
    • Ekphrasis, §4: Ekphrasis in the Renaissance West
    • Giulio Romano, §I, 2(ii): Works following the death of Raphael, 1520–24: Villa Madama
    • Monte, del: (1) Pope Julius III
    • Raphael, §I, 1(iii)(a): Paintings and drawings: Works for the Vatican Palace, 1508–20
    • Raphael, §II: Working methods and technique
    • Rome, §V, 14(iii)(b): Vatican Palace: Decoration
  • paintings
    • frescoes
      • Raphael, §I, 2(ii): Planned and built architecture
  • patrons and collectors
    • Pius IV, Pope
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Die
  • works
    • Animal subjects, §1: Before the 17th century
    • Frame, §II, 3(i): Italian Early Renaissance
    • Grotesque, §2: 1480–1529
    • Italy, §V, 2: Interior decoration, 1450–1599
    • Medici, de’: (8) Clement VII
    • Salviati, Francesco, §1(iii): Florence, North Italy and Rome, 1539–43
    • Stucco and plasterwork, §III, 10(i)(a): Western world, 1400–1850: Italy