Andrea Schiavone (c. 1510/15–1563)

• Andrea Meldolla also called Andrea Schiavone.
• Was an Italian Renaissance painter and etcher.

• Born in the Venetian-ruled city of Zara in Dalmatia, now Zadar in Croatia,

• His family was originally from the small town of Meldola, close to the city of Forlì in Romagna.

• He trained either in Zara or in Venice.

• There are unproven claims that he trained with Bonifazio de Pitati.

• He worked in fresco, panel painting, and etching (teaching himself to etch by working initially from drawings by Parmigianino).

• By 1540, he was well enough established in Venice that Giorgio Vasari commissioned him a large battle picture (which the Florentine author mentions in his Lives).

• Andrea Schiavone died in Venice in 1553.

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