Alessandro Varotari, also known as Il Padovanino (Padua, April 4, 1588 – Venice, July 20, 1649), Workshop
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VAROTARI, Alessandro, known as il Padovanino
– He was born in Padua in 1588 to Dario and Samaritana, who was the daughter of the painter Giambattista Ponchino (Ruggeri, 1993, p. 9).
Since his father died when Varotari was still young, he was unable to practice his workshop, and Marco Boschini (1660) states that the painter trained by copying Titian's paintings in Padua (p. 173). His first known work, The Incredulity of St. Thomas, created in 1610 for the church of S. Lucia in Padua, in fact presents a precise reference to classicism and formal composure; probably shortly after he also performed the altarpiece with The Madonna with Saints Benedict and Jerome now at the Civic Museum of Padua.
In 1615 he lived in the Dorsoduro district in Venice, where he enrolled in the Art of Painters.