L'Ortolano (c. 1480 - after 1527)

• Ortolano was an Italian painter of the Ferrara School.
• He was born in Ferrara.
• He was baptized Giovanni Battista Benvenuti.
• He was called L'Ortolano because his father, Francisco, was a gardener.
• He was a diligent student of the works of Raphael and Bagnacavallo in 1512–1513 in Bologna.
• L'Ortolano painted in the style of Dosso Dossi.
• For the church of San Niccoló he painted in 1520 the Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus with several Saints.
• For Santa Maria de' Servi the Nativity and in San Lorenzo, the Adoration of the Magi.
• From 1512 to 1524 he worked at Ferrara.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Saints Sebastian, Roch and Demetrius, about 1520.
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