Bistre, partially heightened with light grey, lo. le. inscribed Polidore, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Italian painter. P. began as a mason in the construction of the loggias of the Vatican, painting he learned possibly from G. da Udine. After 1527 he went first to Naples, later he settled in Messina. Mus.: Madrid (Prado), Vienna(Kunsthist. Mus.), Naples (Capodimonte) a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others. Artist or Maker Caravaggio, Polidoro da Notes Bistre, partially heightened with light grey, lo. le. inscribed Polidore, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame.