• Was an Italian painter. • Born in Venice. • He was a student of the works of Tintoretto and Titian. • According to an old story he was so extremely accurate in his portraits that on "sending home one he had taken of Marco Dolce, his dogs began to fawn upon it, mistaking it for their master". • His paintings are in the Louvre, in the galleries at Berlin, Florence, Milan, and Vienna, and in many of the churches at Venice.
• He painted easel-pictures of Greek and Roman mythological subjects.
• Some years of his life were passed at the court of the Emperor Rudolf II, with whom he was a great favorite and by whom he was knighted.
