Andrea Michieli (c. 1542 – 1617)

• Also known Andrea Vicentino was an Italian painter.
• He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza.
• Born in Vicenza.
• He moved to Venice in the mid-1570s and registered in the Fraglia or guild of Venetian painters in 1583.
• He worked alongside Tintoretto at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, helping paint The Arrival of Henry III at Venice (c. 1593) at the Sala delle Quattro Porte.
• He also painted the altarpiece Madonna of the Rosary (c. 1590) for the Treviso Cathedral, God the Father with Three Theological Virtues (1598) for the church in Gambara, and St Charles Borromeo (c. 1605) for a church in Mestre.
• Paintings by him exist in a number of galleries including the Raising of Lazarus at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta.
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