Odoardo Fialetti

Odoardo Fialetti, Copperplate engraving in Tabulae Anatomicae by the Italian anatomist Giulio Casserio. Venice, 1627. National Library of Medicine

Odoardo Fialetti (18 July 1573 – 1638?) was an Italian painter and printmaker who began his training during the late Renaissance, and showed distinct mannerist sensibilities in his mid-career, adopting a much looser and more dynamic style in his later life.

Born in Bologna, he initially apprenticed with Giovanni Battista Cremonini, and after traveling to Rome, he moved to Venice to work in the elderly Tintoretto's studio. From 1604 to 1612, he is listed as member of the Venetian Fraglia dei Pittori. In Venice, he painted a St Agnes for the church of San Nicolò da Tolentino and scenes from the Life of St Dominic for the sacristy of the Santi Giovanni e Paolo. He died in Venice.

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  The ferryman Paymen (Pagamento del traghettatore) San Zanipolo Venice

References

• Grove Art Encyclopedia entry on Artnet
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 60.

External links

Media related to Odoardo Fialetti at Wikimedia Commons

• Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Odoardo Fialetti (see index)
• Tutte le parti del corpo hvmano diuiso in piu pezzi (The True Method and Order to Draw All Parts and Limbs of the Human Body) - a 1608 anatomical method book by Fialetti for drawing human body parts