Peter Candid aka Peter de Witt or Peter de Witte was a Netherland

Netherland

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ish Mannerist

Mannerism

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 painter and architect

Architect

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. He moved to Florence

Florence

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 as a child with his father, a tapestry weaver, and was trained in Italy. Candid worked with Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

 on the Sala Regia

Sala Regia (Vatican)

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 in the Vatican

Apostolic Palace

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 and on the cupola

Cupola

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 of the Florence Cathedral. By 1586 he was in Munich

Munich

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, where he was first court painter

Court painter

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 to Duke William V of Bavaria

William V, Duke of Bavaria

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 and later worked for Maximilian I of Bavaria

Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria

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. For the Duke and Elector Maximilian, Candid frescoed numerous buildings, including the Munich Residenz

Residenz, Munich

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 and Schleissheim Palace

Schleissheim Palace

The Schleissheim Palace actually comprises three palaces in a grand baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was the summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria.-Old Schleissheim Palace:...

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A segment of Munich’s ring road

Ring road

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 is named after Candid, as is the metro station

Metro station

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 Candidplatz

Candidplatz

Candidplatz is an U-Bahn station in Munich on the U1 line of the Munich U-Bahn system.-References:...

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Sources

• Volk-Knüttelm, Brigitte. "Candid, Peter [Candido, Pietro di Pietro; Witte, Pieter de]" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press
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