Peter Candid

Peter Candid, Apotheosis of Aeneas, c. 1600. Bode Museum, Berlin.

Peter Candid (c. 1548 – 1628), also known as Peter de Witt or Peter de Witte, was a Netherlandish Mannerist painter and architect. He was probably born in Bruges, but moved to Florence as a child with his father, a tapestry weaver, and was trained in Italy. Candid worked with Giorgio Vasari on the Sala Regia in the Vatican and on the cupola of the Florence Cathedral. By 1586 he was in Munich, where he was first court painter to Duke William V of Bavaria and later worked for Maximilian I of Bavaria. For the Duke and Elector Maximilian, Candid frescoed numerous buildings, including the Munich Residenz and Schleissheim Palace. He died in Munich.

A segment of Munich’s ring road is named after Candid, as is the metro station Candidplatz.

Sources

• Curl, James Stevens (2006). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Paperback) (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 880. ISBN 0-19-860678-8. 
• Volk-Knüttelm, Brigitte. "Candid, Peter [Candido, Pietro di Pietro; Witte, Pieter de]" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 19 June 2007].