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Marco basaiti biography
Marco Basaiti
Italian painter
Marco Basaiti (c. 1470–1530) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance who worked mainly in Venice and was a contemporary of Giovanni Bellini and Cima da Conegliano.[1] He has been referred to by several names including Marco Baxaiti, Marcus Basitus, and Marcus Baxiti.
(Vasari believed that Marco Basarini and Marco Basaiti were two artists, but later information reveals that these two were in fact the same painter.)[2][3] There is little documentation on Marco Basaiti besides his painting signatures and a guild's ledger of 1530 that records him as a painter of figures.[4]
His works are mainly portraits and religious subjects.[4][5] There is no known painting attributed to Marco Basaiti with a mythological theme.[2] Although trained in the quattrocento style, Basaiti's career began right at the beginning of the cinquecento style which forced him to attempt to adapt his s