Giovanni Battista Averara (1508- November 10, 1548) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere He was born in Bergamo. Bergamo ( Bèrghem in Lombard, antiquated Wälsch-Bergen in German) is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about Little is known of this landscape painter who died at a young age from dog bite. He painted in the style of Titian. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c 1485 &ndash August 27 1576 better known as Titian, was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian He is mentioned by the biographer Tassi, and may be confused with Giovanni Battista de Averara. Averara is a Comune in the Province of Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy.