Polidoro da lanciano biografia
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Polidoro da Lanciano
Italian painter
Polidoro de Rienzo da Lanciano (Lanciano, - ) was an Italian painter.
Relatively little is known of his life. He was born in Lanciano, a town that is a few miles inland from Ortona, a port on the Adriatic Sea. This is in the Abruzzi region of Italy, lying southeast of Pescara. His grandfather, Alessandro Rienzo, was a ceramic painter in Lanciano.
Based on Venetian documents Polydoro's birthdate is taken to be At an early age he apparently showed great artistic talent.
Polidoro de Rienzo da Lanciano (Lanciano, - ) was an Italian painter.
and for that reason he moved to Venice, the center of art in that region of Italy, at a young age. There he assumed a Venetian form for his name, Lanzani. His first mention in official Venetian documents is , when he would have been 21 years of age.
He probably came to Venice at least five years prior to that in order to begin his artistic training. His name appears as a witness to a document in the years and His Last Will and Testament bears his signature, and is date