About Guillaume de Marcillat
Lived 1470 – 1529 (aged 58–59). Guillaume de Marcillat was a French painter and stained-glass artist.
Guillaume de Marcillat (ca. 1470–1529) was a French painter and stained glass artist.
Biography
He was born in La Châtre, Indre about 1470. He was in Rome by 1509, where he was employed by the popes Julius II and Leo X in the Vatican and at Santa Maria del Popolo, where the two windows in the choir are his earliest surviving works. In 1515, he was summoned by Cardinal Silvio Passerini to Cortona, where he established a workshop, that produced stained glass windows for the Madonna del Calcinaio Cathedral. By 1519 he was in Arezzo, where he produced windows for the Cathedral of Arezzo and the Basilica of San Francesco. He also painted biblical frescos in the vault of the Cathedral of Arezzo.
He died in Arezzo, Italy in 1529.
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Who was Guillaume de Marcillat?
French painter (1470-1529)
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Guillaume de Marcillat was born in 1470 in La Châtre.
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Guillaume de Marcillat died in 1529 in Arezzo.
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Guillaume de Marcillat was a painter and stained-glass artist.
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Guillaume de Marcillat was French.
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