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Giovanni Naldini was an Italian painter of the Late Mannerism in Florence. His first apprenticeship (1549-57) was in the studio of Jacopo Pontormo, and he went to Rome for a number of months following 1560. There, he was recruited to work for Giorgio Vasari in 1562. He painted two crowded, Mannerist canvases for the Studio of Francesco I in the Palazzo Vecchio, which were The Allegory of Dreams and The Gathering of Ambergris.

He supplied altarpieces for Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce and also painted an altarpiece of the calling of Saint Matthew for the Salviati Chapel in San Marco, where he worked alongside Francesco Morandini. Ultimately, he is aptly described by Freedberg as displaying work distantly derivative from the style of Andrea del Sarto, as expressed by Naldini's two mentors and Sarto's two pupils: Pontormo and Vasari. Among his pupils was the Cavalieri Francesco Currado.

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