Giuseppe Porta

Giuseppe Porta also known as Giuseppe Salviati (1520 - 1575) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mostly in Venice. Born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, in 1535 he apprenticed with Francesco Salviati in Rome. He adopted his mentor’s last name when signing paintings. In 1539, he accompanied his master to Venice, and stayed there after Salviati left in 1541. In 1565, he returned to Rome to paint frescoes, left incomplete by his master, for the Sala Regia in the Vatican. He returned to Venice to paint both in the Doge's Palace and Biblioteca Marciana. He was elected into the Florentine Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno. Much of his output was on now-lost external façade decoration. He also published a mathematically-oriented treatises on decorative column design. One of his pupils was Pietro Malombra.

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• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 132-133. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
• Getty museum entry.