Giovanni da Udine

A painter also named Giovanni da Udine was exiled from his native city in 1472.

One of his well-known discoveries is the art of Stucco, that Giovanni was the "new-founder" of after antiquity: occasioned by the discovery of the Domus Aurea, Nero's residence near the Colosseum: in the first year of the 16th century Raphael and his students went down "Mons Coelius" into tunnels that were formed to explore that area.

With candles and torches they explored the caves and looked at the walls onto which were painted little heavy coloured figures that were named "grottesche (pl.

After the death of Raphael, da Udine continued to work on projects initiated by his master, namely the Villa Madama in Rome.

He returned to Rome in 1560 to work on the third floor of the Logge Vaticane, and died in this city in 1564.