Fiammingo was born in Antwerp, and registered in the Guild of St Luke there in 1561. In 1573 he is recorded as working in Venice, as an assistant in Tintoretto's studio, where he specialised in painting landscape backgrounds.
Fiammingo remained in Venice where he opened a successful studio. Although he painted many religious subjects, his reputation was based on mythological fantasies, developed from the example of Giorgione.
Paolo Fiammingo
about 1540 - 1596
Paintings by Paolo Fiammingo
A maze or rocky grotto looks out over a cloudy mountainous landscape and meandering river. A turbaned man plays a lute by torchlight as three others embrace bizarre hybrid women. One has a serpent for a tail, another has the face of a pig, a third has the head of a reptile. Two turbaned figures,...
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As punishment for revealing the future to mankind, King Phineas of Thrace was blinded and had his food continually stolen by the harpies, who were half human and half bird. The story is told in the Argonautica, an epic romance written by Apollonius Rhodius during the third century BC.A naked woma...
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