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Andrea Meldolla, known as Andrea Schiavone or Lo Schiavone (Zara, 1510/1515 – Venice, 1 December 1563), was an Italian painter and engraver, active mainly in Venice, one of the protagonists of Venetian Mannerism. Known as Schiavone because of his place of birth, although the family was originally from Meldola, he had an almost self-taught education, studying the prints of Parmigianino, Tintoretto and Francesco Salviati. Read the full biography

Andrea Meldolla, known as Andrea Schiavone or Lo Schiavone (Zara, 1510/1515 – Venice, 1 December 1563), was an Italian painter and engraver, active mainly in Venice, one of the protagonists of Venetian Mannerism. Known as Schiavone because of his place of birth, although the family was originally from Meldola, he had an almost self-taught education, studying the prints of Parmigianino, Tintoretto and Francesco Salviati. The influence that the art of his contemporaries Titian and Tintoretto had on him is distorted in his exasperated monumentalism, in his emphatic and almost expressionist style which will be exemplary for the subsequent experiments of Jacopo Bassano and Rembrandt. We should consider the influence of another painter, Lorenzo or Pietro Luzzo, called "Zarotto" who brought to Venice the ideas deriving from ancient Roman, proto-impressionist painting, in the Giorgionesque context. See especially Schiavone's painting "Meeting of a Man and a Woman". Among his works, the Adoration of the Magi (1547) in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the Philosophers in the Marciana National Library in Venice, in the Church of the Carmini in Venice there are his paintings on the current choir stalls, Cain and Abel (circa 1542) in the Palatine Gallery of the Uffizi and the organ doors (circa 1550) for the church of San Pietro in Belluno.