Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) (before 1550–died 1598)

• Was a Neapolitan painter.
• He was active mainly in Rome, but also worked in Naples and Florence.
• It is thought that he studied under Jacopino del Conte in Rome.
• Best known for his portraits, Pulzone painted Pope Gregory XIII, Cardinal de' Medici and Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Eleanor de' Medici, and Marie de' Medici.
• Pulzone's Mater Divinae Providentiae, painted around 1580, inspired the Roman Catholic cult of devotion to Our Lady of Providence.

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