Timoteo viti biography of martin

A compositional study for Viti's altarpiece of St Thomas of Canterbury, St Martin of Tours with Bishop Arrivabene and Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino formerly in the.

Italian renaissance painter ().

According to Vasari, Timoteo was an artist, a poet, and a musician.

Although born in Pannonia and appointed to a French see, Martin grew up in Pavia and performed many miracles in Milan, two cities where Arrivabene had.

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According to Vasari, Timoteo was an artist, a poet, and a musician....

Timoteo Viti

Italian painter

Timoteo Viti (Urbino, 1469 – 1523, Urbino), sometimes called Timoteo della Viti or Timoteo da Urbino,^[1] was an Italian Renaissance painter, who was closely associated with Raphael, who was fourteen years his junior.

Career

Born in Urbino, Viti was the grandson of the painter Antonio Alberti; his father was also a painter. According to Vasari and Malvasia, Viti was apprenticed to Francesco Francia in Bologna between 1490 and 1495; aspects of Viti's style would seem to confirm an apprenticeship in Bologna.

Indeed, Maratti's biography then served as a legitimizing tool for his own career.

In 1495 he returned to Urbino and replaced Giovanni Santi, the recently deceased father of Raphael, as painter to the small but brilliant court there. He completed paintings of the Muses in the Ducal Palace that Santi had left unfinished.^[2]

The precocious Raphael, who was eleven at his father's death, continued to run his father's workshop with help from his family.

It has often been speculated that Viti contribu