Giovanni Ambrogio di Predis (1455-1508)

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter.
• He also worked like an illuminator and designer of coins.
• Predis was active in Milan.
• Ambrogio gained a reputation as a portraitist, at the court of Ludovico Sforza.
• Ambrogio de Predis was born in a family of artists from Lombardy.
• His brothers and half-brothers including Evangelista, Bernardino and Cristoforo were also painters.
• He subsequently worked for the court of the Sforzas for a number of years, mainly as a portrait painter.
• It is during this time that he offered hospitality to Leonardo da Vinci when he arrived in Milan.
• The portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza was painted by Ambrogio, who followed her to Innsbruck after the wedding in 1493.
• He worked for several years in the lady's service before returning to Milan.
• In 1502 he produced his only surviving signed and dated work, a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian. 
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