PALMA, Italian family of painters and draughtsmen
They were active in Venice from the early 16th century to the first quarter of the 17th. Palma Vecchio was the most talented of a number of painters of his generation from the Bergamo region who worked in Venice. His nephew Antonio Palma was a pupil of Bonifazio de' Pitati. Antonio's son Palma Giovane was the leading painter in Venice in the early 17th century. Despite the continuity of the generations, there was no stylistic continuity founded on workshop training between the three artists, other than that perceptible in 16th-century Venetian painting as a whole. Antonio Palma moved to Venice at an early age, but probably only in 1528, at the time of his uncle's death, and he conveyed nothing of his own practice to his son.
