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Italian painter (c.1480–1528)

Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), born Jacopo Palma,^{[citation needed]} also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance.

Palma il vecchio biography of michael

He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian ("Palma the Elder") to distinguish him from Palma il Giovane ("Palma the Younger"), his great-nephew, who was also a painter.

Life

Palma was born at Serina Alta near Bergamo, a dependency of the Republic of Venice, but his recorded career all took place in or near Venice.

He is first recorded in Venice in 1510, but had probably already been there for some time.^[1] He was perhaps apprenticed to Andrea Previtali, who also came from Bergamo, and who returned there in 1511.^[2] Palma's earlier works show the influence of Giovanni Bellini, Previtali's master and by then the aged doyen of Venetian painting, but Palma came to follow the new style and subjects