Antonio Vassilacchi

Antonio Vassilacchi Αντώνιος Βασιλάκης
Born	Antonios Vasilakis 1556 Milos, Venetian Empire (in present-day Greece)
Died	1629 (age 72-73) San Vitale, Venetian Empire
Nationality	Greek
Known for	Painting
Movement	High Renaissance

Antonio Vassilacchi (1556–1629) (Greek: Αντώνιος Βασιλάκης, Antonios Vasilakis, Italian: Antonio Vassilacchi [anˈtɔnjo vassiˈlakki]) also called L'Aliense, was a Greek painter, who was active mostly in Venice and the Veneto.

Antonio Vassilacchi was born of Greek descent on the island of Milos, Greece in 1556. He left very young to settle in Venice. In 1572 Vassilacchi became a pupil of Paolo Veronese and began working on the frescoes in the episcopal palace at Treviso, in the church of Sant'Agata in Padua (Padova), and various churches in Venice. His opportunity came with the great conflagration that nearly devoured the Doge's Palace in Venice in December 1577. Aliense, a compatriot and just a little younger than El Greco, was one of the painters commissioned to decorate the restored Palace.

Vassilacchi became a member of 'The Brotherhood of Saint Nicolas of the Greek Nation', one of the liveliest 'foreign' communities in Venice, in 1600. In its book of members, the secretary inscribed, between a Cephallonian and a Cypriot, "Ant. Vassilachi: 1600:". He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Venetian Painters from 1584 and had acquired a sobriquet, 'Aliense'. The name derives from the Latin alienus, meaning stranger, alien, foreign, and was presumably given to Vassilacchi because of his completely alien, that is non-Italian (and not simply non-Venetian), origin.

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