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Timoteo Viti
Italian painter
Timoteo Viti (Urbino, 1469 – 1523, Urbino), sometimes called Timoteo della Viti or Timoteo da Urbino,[1] was an Italian Renaissance painter, who was closely associated with Raphael, who was fourteen years his junior.
Career
Born in Urbino, Viti was the grandson of the painter Antonio Alberti; his father was also a painter. According to Vasari and Malvasia, Viti was apprenticed to Francesco Francia in Bologna between 1490 and 1495; aspects of Viti's style would seem to confirm an apprenticeship in Bologna.
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In 1495 he returned to Urbino and replaced Giovanni Santi, the recently deceased father of Raphael, as painter to the small but brilliant court there. He completed paintings of the Muses in the Ducal Palace that Santi had left unfinished.[2]
The precocious Raphael, who was eleven at his father's death, continued to run his father's workshop with help from his family.
It has often been speculated that Viti contribu