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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Diana and Actaeon (detail) ca. 1580-85 oil on panel Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Diana and Actaeon ca. 1580-85 oil on panel Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Diana and Actaeon (detail) ca. 1580-85 oil on panel Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Apollo and the Muses ca. 1580-85 oil on panel Museo Francesco Borgogna, Vercelli |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini The Holy Family with St John the Baptist and St Elizabeth 1578 oil on panel (central panel of triptych) Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini The Annunciation ca. 1570 oil on panel Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Martino, Uzzano |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini The Annunciation (detail) ca. 1570 oil on panel Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Martino, Uzzano |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Episodes from the Passion of Christ ca. 1577-80 oil on panel Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Episodes from the Passion of Christ (detail) ca. 1577-80 oil on panel Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Episodes from the Passion of Christ (detail) ca. 1577-80 oil on panel Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini The Nativity (detail) 1573 oil on panel Basilica di Santa Maria Novella, Florence |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini The Nativity (detail) 1573 oil on panel Basilica di Santa Maria Novella, Florence |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Christ in Glory with St Agnes and St Helena ca. 1571 oil on panel (modello) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Pietà with Mary Magdalen and St Nicodemus 1566 detached fresco Galleria dello Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence |
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| workshop of Giovanni Battista Naldini The Deposition ca. 1590 oil on panel Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola, Florence |
"Giovanni Battista Naldini at age 12 entered the studio of Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1556), remaining until Pontormo's death eight years later. Around 1560 Naldini moved from Florence to Rome, but shortly returned, working primarily for the Medici as one of many artists under the supervision of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). Among his commissions were decorations for the obsequies of Michelangelo in 1564 and for the marriage of Francesco I de' Medici to Joan of Austria the following year. Naldini also assisted Vasari with the decoration of the studiolo and Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio. However, the partnership ended when in 1571 Naldini refused Vasari's invitation to work in Rome."
– adapted from curator's notes at Museo del Prado, Madrid