Paolo the Younger Caylina

1485 – 1545

Italian painter. He was the nephew of both Vincenzo Foppa and Paolo Caylina the Elder, and son of Bartolomeo Caylina (active 1489-1503). He was called in the past with different names (Paolo Foppa, Paolo Zoppo, Vincenzo Foppa il Giovane), and works by him were attributed to other artists (Vincenzo Foppa, Floriano Ferramola, Moretto, Romanino ) and vice versa, but today his small oeuvre is clearly identified. In 1503 and 1504 he was in Milan and Pavia, respectively, as a Foppa procurator. In 1505-06 he decorated the dressing rooms of Lucrezia Borgia in the castle of Ferrara where he performed other works and where he knew the Bembo. Between 1514 and 1524 he is mentioned in various Brescian documents concerning family interests. In 1527 he worked on the frescoes in the church of S. Giulia in Brescia together with the Ferramola. In 1541 he painted the St. Jerome altarpiece in S. Maria delle Grazie in Brescia. The last document mentioning him is from 1545. Caylona is considered as a link between the art of Foppa and the generation of the great Brescia painters of the sixteenth century.

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