Callisto Piazza (1500–1561)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Callisto, a member of the Piazza family of painters.
• He was born in Lodi, Lombardy.
• In 1523 he was working in Brescia.
• His first dated and signed work is from the following year, and shows a typical Brescian style.
• In 1526–1529 Piazza worked in Val Camonica, at Erbanno, Borno, Breno, Esine and Cividate Camuno.
• In 1529 he returned to his native Lodi where he formed a workshop with his brothers Cesare and Scipione.
• In 1538, while in Crema, he married the noblewoman Francesca Confalonieri.
• Later Callisto moved to Milan, where he received numerous commissions.
• Callisto returned to Lodi in 1551 and died there ten years later.
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