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Bartolomeo Schedoni
Italian painter
Bartolomeo Schedoni (sometimes Schedone)[1] (1578 – 23 December 1615) was an Italian early Baroque painter from Modena.
Biography
He was born in Modena, and moved to Parma with his father, a mask-maker who served the Farnese court.[2] In 1595 Schedoni traveled to Rome, where he apprenticed briefly under Federico Zuccari with the sponsorship of Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma.[2] After falling ill, he returned to Parma. The baroque art historian Count Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1616–1693) claims that Schedoni trained under Annibale Carracci in Bologna, although this is questionable; his early work reveals instead his study of Correggio's works in Parma.[2]
Schedoni's earliest known commission was in 1598.[2] He left Parma after an imprisonment for assault, and relocated to Modena. There he served as painter to the court of Cesare d’Este, and collaborated with Ercole dell'Abate in Biography books for 4th graders.