Giorgio Schiavone
painter from Dalmatia (1436-1504)
Juraj Ćulinović (Italian: Giorgio Schiavone; Latin: Georgius Dalmaticus; 1433/1436 – 6 December 1504) was a Dalmatian Renaissance painter, active in North Italy and Dalmatia. He is considered the most important Dalmatian painter of the 15th century.
Name
While in Italy, he usually signed his name as Sclavonus, or in some cases Georgius Dalmaticus. He is best known today as Giorgio Schiavone or Giorgio di Tomaso Schiavone.
Biography
Born in Skradin, young Juraj probably received his first painting lessons while still in Dalmatia, from Dujam Vušković when that artist was in Šibenik (1448–52) working on a polyptych for the cathedral commissioned by the nobleman Juraj Radoslavčić.
He moved to Italy in 1456, and signed a contract to assist Francesco Squarcione in his Padua studio. After a few years he left Squarcione's workshop, without repaying his debt to the teacher and taking several of his drawings with him. By 1462 he was back in Dalmatia, working in Zadar, then from 1463 he was in Šibenik teaching art, with working visits to Venice and Padua. In 1463 he married Jelena, the daughter of the sculptor and architect Juraj Dalmatinac. It is said that his paintings influenced his father-in-law’s sculpture.
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