(b Verona, c. 1526; d Mantua, 28 Aug 1578). Italian painter. According to Ridolfi, he was trained with Paolo Veronese in the workshop of Antonio Badile IV in Verona. Much of Zelotti’s work was executed for prestigious villas and palazzi in and near Vicenza. Although works of uncertain attribution have been assigned traditionally to Veronese, owing to his greater fame, a clearer picture of the distinctions between the two artists during their early years has emerged in the later 20th century.

• Zelotti, Battista
  • Italy, §III, 4(iii): High Renaissance and Mannerist painting, c 1500–c 1600: Venice
  • collaboration
    • Canneri, Anselmo
    • Fasolo, Giovanni Antonio
    • Veronese, Paolo, §I, 1(ii): Verona, to 1553: First commissions outside Verona
  • patrons and collectors
    • Veronese, Paolo, §I, 2(i): Venice and Verona, 1553–60: Major decorative commissions
  • works
    • Obizzi
    • Palladio, Andrea, §I, 1(ii): Architecture: Basilica and mature work, 1548–59
    • Venice, §II, 3(i): Art life and organization, 1454–1599: Painting