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Benfatto, Luigi (Alvise)

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BENFATTO, LUIGI (ALVISE). - Painter, b. in Verona ca. 1544, as may be inferred from the parish necrology which states that he died at the age of about 65, in Venice in 1609. Nephew and mediocre imitator of P. Veronese, he later adhered to Palma il Giovane and to Tintoretto, remaining superficial and crude. His principal works in Venice are the Battle of Constantine and Maxentius (in S. Apollinare), Christ before Pilate and the Communion of the Apostles (in S. Luca), the Centurion Implores Christ (1587, signed, in the church of the Arcangelo Raffaele), and the frescoes in S. Niccolò de' Mendicanti.

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BIBL.: Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, III, pp. 324-25 (with bibliography); G. Fiocco, Paolo Veronese, Bologna 1928, p. 65; A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte, IX, iv, Milan 1929, pp. 1109-12. - For the dates of birth and death cf.: E. Cicogna, Delle iscrizioni veneziane, III, Venice 1880, pp. 275-76.

Elsa Gerlini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1330.

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Gerlini, Elsa. “Benfatto, luigi (alvise).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1330. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/benfatto-luigi-alvise.

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Gerlini, Elsa. “Benfatto, luigi (alvise).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1330. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/benfatto-luigi-alvise.

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  author    = {Gerlini, Elsa},
  title     = {Benfatto, luigi (alvise)},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1330},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/benfatto-luigi-alvise}
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