Giuseppe Porta, ca. (1520–ca. 1575)

• Also known as Giuseppe Salviati.
• Was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.
• Born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana.
• In 1535 he apprenticed with Francesco Salviati in Rome.
• He adopted his mentor's last name when signing paintings.
• In 1539, he accompanied his master to Venice, and stayed there after Salviati left in 1541.
• From 1541 to 1552 he worked at Padua.
• In 1565, he returned to Rome to paint frescoes, left incomplete by his master, for the Sala Regia in the Vatican.
• He returned to Venice in 1565 to paint both in the Doge's Palace and Biblioteca Marciana.
• He was elected into the Florentine Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno.
• Among his pupils were Pietro Malombra and Girolamo Gamberati.
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