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Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Benvenuto Tisio
TISIO, or Tisi, Benvenuto (1481–1559), commonly called Il Garofalo, a painter of the Ferrarese school.
He was born in 1481 at Garofolo, in the Ferrarese territory, and constantly used the gillyflower (garofalo) as a symbol with which to sign his pictures.
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He took to drawing in childhood, and was put to study under Domenico Panetti (or Laneto), and afterwards at Cremona under his maternal uncle, Niccolo Soriani, a painter of credit, who died in 1499; he also frequented the school of Boccaccio Boccaccino.
Removing to Rome, he stayed fifteen months with Giovanni Baldini, acquiring a solid style of draughts manship, and finally to Mantua, where he remained two years with Lorenzo Costa. He then entered the service of the marquis Francesco Gonzaga.
Afterwards he went to Ferrara, and worked there four years, showing diligence and delicacy without much severity or elevation of style. Attracted by Raphael's fame