Carducci (Span. Cardicuho), Bartolomeo,
an eminent Italian painter, was born at Florence in 1561. He studied under Frederigo Zucchero, whom he assisted on the work of the great .cupola at Florence and while quite young, he painted two pictures for the church of the Jesuits, representing. The Annunciation. and The Nativity. The. work. which; above all others, established his reputation in Spin, is 'The Descent from the Cross, in the church of San Felipe, at Madrid. He died there -in 1610. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the. Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.,