Painter of the Venetian school, born Treviso, Italy, 1495; died Venice, Italy, 1570. Strongly influenced by Giorgione and by Titian, he successfully imitated the latter whom he closely approaches as a portrait painter. His finest painting is in the Academy of Venice, "The Fisherman Presenting the Ring of Saint Mark to the Doge."
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