Simone Peterzano (c. 1535–1599) was an Italian painter from
Bergamo, but stressed his links to
Venice
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where he probably trained.
He painted in
mannerist style
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and is mostly known as the master of
Caravaggio.
Peterzano called himself a pupil of
Titian
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and would sometimes sign his works ''titiani alumnus.''
He debuted in
Milan
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with the counterfaçade frescoes in
San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore (1573), influenced by
Veronese and
Tintoretto
Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...
. In the same year he painted two canvasses with ''Histories of Sts. Paul and Barnabas'' for the church of
San Barnaba, also in Milan. Also from the same period are a ''Pietà'' in the church of
San Fedele and a ''Pentecost'' for
San Paolo Converso (now in
Sant'Eufemia).
Between 1578 and 1582 Peterzano executed frescoes in the presbytery of
Garegnano Charterhouse
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, considered one of his masterworks. In the same period he painted a ''Nativity with saints and angels'' in the church of
Santa Maria di Canepanova in
Pavia
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.
His last works, characterized by a cold monumental style, include a fresco with ''Stories of St. Anthony of Padua'' for the church of
Sant'Angelo, a canvas with ''Madonna with Child and Saints'' for the parish church of
Bioggio
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The municipality was created in 2004 with the union of old town of Bioggio with Bosco Luganese and Cimo. In 2008, Iseo chose to be part of the municipal ...
(
Canton Ticino
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) and an altarpiece with ''St. Ambrose between Sts. Gervasius and Protasius'' in the
Duomo of Milan
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(1592, now in the
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or an ...
).
References
Sources
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*Graham-Dixon, Andrew (2011). Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. London: Penguin Books. p. 14.
External links
Painters of reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy', an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (available online as PDF), which contains material on Peterzano (see index).
1540s births
1590s deaths
Painters from Bergamo
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Mannerist painters
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