Garofalo or Benvenuto Tisi (1481 – 1559),

• Was an Italian painter of the School of Ferrara.
• Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este.
• His early works have been described as "idyllic", but they often conform to the elaborate conceits favored by the artistically refined Ferrarese court.
• His nickname, Garofalo, may derive from his habit of signing some works with a picture of a carnation (in Italian, garofano).
• Born in Canaro near Ferrara.
• Tisi is claimed to have apprenticed under Panetti and perhaps Costa and was a contemporary, and sometimes collaborator with Dosso Dossi.
• In 1495 he worked at Cremona under his maternal uncle Niccolò Soriano, and at the school of Boccaccino.
• The displayed painting is a crop from An Allegory of Love, probably about 1527-39.