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Domenico Capriolo (1494-1528) 
Aliases: Domenico Caprioli; Domenico "di" Bernardino Capriolo; Domingo Capriolo; Dominico Capriolo; Domenico Chapriolo
Professions: Painter; Freskant
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Domenico Capriolo , Venezia c. 1494-1528 Treviso San Francesco olio su tavola, senza cornice
Biography: Capriolo
(b Venice, c. 1494; d Treviso, 8 Oct 1528). Italian painter. He moved from Venice to Treviso c . 1517, where he is well documented (though there is little about his painting). In 1518–19 he married Camilla, daughter of the painter Pier Maria Pennacchi. A coherent body of work executed between 1518 and 1528 has been reconstructed. Capriolo’s first secure work, the Adoration of the Shepherds (Treviso, Mus. Civ.), signed and dated 1518, has a formal structure reminiscent of the late style of Giovanni Bellini, with the broader chromatic range of Palma Vecchio and a crepuscular light that recalls the Venetian works of Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo or Giovanni da Asola (fl 1512–31). The Assumption in Treviso Cathedral, commissioned in 1520, shows, in its spiralling movement, the influence of the contemporary frescoes of Pordenone in the nearby Malchiostro Chapel. In the Legend of the Doubting Midwife (Treviso, Mus. Civ.), signed and dated 1524, the influence of Savoldo is greater than that of Palma. This is also apparent in the altarpiece of the parish church of Ponzano Veneto (Treviso), dated 1525. The portrait of Lelio Torelli (Barnard Castle, Bowes Mus.), signed and dated 1528, Capriolo’s last known work, seems by contrast to reflect local models of portraiture and lies somewhere between the styles of Sebastiano Florigerio and Bernardino Licinio. Other works assigned to Capriolo include: the altarpieces of the parish churches of Cavasagra and Spercenigo, near Treviso; the Adoration of the Shepherds in the sacristy of Serravalle Cathedral at Vittorio Veneto; a fragment of a Nativity (Venice, Mus. Correr); two paintings of the Virgin and Child with Saints (Bucharest, Mus. A.; Conegliano, Mus. Civ. Castello); and the Portrait of a Musician (Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.), previously attributed to Pordenone. Capriolo was murdered by his wife’s stepfather, after years of litigation about her dowry.
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