Claudio Ridolfi

Ridolfi was born in Verona to a noble family.^[2] He was active mainly in Rome and Urbino where he was a pupil of the painters Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese.^[3][4] Simone Cantarini, Girolamo Cialdieri, Benedetto Marini, and two painters named Patanazzi and Urbinelli were pupils or followers of Ridolfi.^[2]

Despite being unable to find employment as a painter, he lived a comfortable life and enjoyed painting.^[1][3] While in Urbino he married a noblewoman and established himself in Corinaldo.^[3] He died in 1644 aged 84 years old.^[2]

• Birth of John the Baptist for the church of Santa Lucia in Urbino
• Presentation of the virgin in the temple for a church in Santo Spirito
• Deposition for a church in Rimini
• Santa Giustina, St Benedict presenting rules to the principal Benedictines for a church in Padua
• San Fillippo and Santa Maria Assunta, in a canvas, in the church of Santa Maria Assunta, in Galzignano Terme

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Sources

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 147.