Career
He was also called Tommaso Vincitore, Tommaso da Bologna and Thomas Polonier (by Dürer). He was the pupil of Raphael, whom he helped in the execution of the famous Raphael Cartoons. Vincidor is further said to have been one of those pupils of Raphael who carried out the frescoes in the Vatican Loggia under his direction.
On Raphael"s death in 1520 he traveled to Flanders.
Later details of the life of Tommaso are vague and scanty. He entered the service of Henry of Nassau at Breda, and was employed in reconstructive and decorative work at the Castle there, and died in the Netherlands in 1536.