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Timoteo Viti

Painter, Stained-glass painter, Faience painter, Faience artist, Artisan (male) and Goldsmith (male)

Born
ca. 1469 / 1470 in Urbino
Died
1523 in Urbino
School
Renaissance

5 Works by Timoteo Viti

11 Works based on Timoteo Viti

Biography

Vasari tells us that Timoteo Viti (born in Urbino ca. 1469 or 1470; died in Urbino in 1523) trained as a painter in Bologna 1490-1495 under Francesco Francia; active at the court of the della Rovere in Urbino. Summoned to Rome in 1512/14? by Raphael (frescoes in Santa Maria della Pace). His extensive collection of drawings, with many sheets by Raphael (Viti-Antaldi) was broken up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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