Bartolom? Carducho

(b Florence, c. 1560; d Madrid, 1608). Painter, sculptor and architect. He trained in Florence with Bartolomeo Ammanati in painting, sculpture and architecture, and at the age of 18 he was working under Federico Zuccaro on the painting of the dome of the cathedral of S Maria del Fiore in Florence. He then accompanied Zuccaro to Rome, where he executed various commissions for Pope Gregory XIII and became implicated in the legal case of 1581 against Zuccaro and Domenico Passignano over the engravings of the Porta Virtutis, considered insulting by their detractors. Pardoned by the Pope, he continued to work under Zuccaro in all the latter's papal commissions.

Part of the Carducho family

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