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Marcello Venusti, ca. (1512–1579)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Native to Mazzo di Valtellina near Como.
• Venusti was a pupil of Perino del Vaga.
• He is known for a scaled copy in oils of Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
• Buonarroti engaged him to paint an Annunciation from his design for the Capella de' Cesi in the church of Santa Maria della Pace.
• Also attributed to Venusti are a number of altarpieces for Roman churches, such as for the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Cornelis Cort After Marcello Venusti, The Martyrdom of St Stephen, 1576.
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