Giovanni Maria Verdizzotti

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Giovanni Maria Verdizzotti (1525-1600) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Venice. He was a pupil and friend of Titian. He excelled in painting small landscapes with figures of mythology or history. He also published a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Aeneid.

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• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, pages 654.