Alessandro Leone Varotari-Padovanino (1588 - 1649)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, and Bartolommeo Scaligero.
• He was the son of Dario Varotari the Elder and the brother of painter Chiara Varotari.
• Born in Padua, from which his nickname derives.
• Padovanino married Caterina Mesa 1612 in Padua.
• He moved to Venice in 1614.
• He is known to have traveled to Rome twice.
• In 1619, he worked on the mosaics of the Basilica of San Marco.
• In the following years he worked on decorating the interior of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
• In 1625 he made another trip to Rome.
• His sister Chiara Varotari was a well known portraitist.
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