Claudio Ridolfi

Claudio Ridolfi (1560–1644) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

Ridolfi was born in Verona, and was active mainly in Rome and Urbino. He was a pupil of the painters Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese. A friend of Federico Barocci, he established himself in Corinaldo in the region of Ancona, where he died. Simone Cantarini, Girolamo Cialdieri, Benedetto Marini, and two painters named Patanazzi and Urbinelli were pupils or followers of Ridolfi.

Works

Birth of John the Baptist for the church of Santa Lucia in Urbino

Presentation of the virgin in the temple for a church in Santo Spirito

Deposition for a church in Rimini

Santa Giustina, St Benedict presenting rules to the principal Benedictines for a church in Padua