Fermo Stella (c. 1490 – c. 1562) was an Italian painter of Lombardy and Piedmont, mostly in rural churches and sanctuaries. Art historians from the 19th century cite erroneously Fermo as active at dates that range from the 15th century to 1577. Varallo SMdelleGrazie Fermo Stella

Biography

Born in

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...

, he was a pupil or a follower of

Gaudenzio Ferrari Gaudenzio Ferrari ( – 11 January 1546) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance. Biography Gaudenzio was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the province of Vercelli in P ...

. Collaboration is suggested as early as circa 1510 with Gaudenzio. Documents show they worked together in

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in 1522. Fermo has left a number of sacred subjects throughout the north Lombardy and east Piedmont, including at the Sacro Monte of Varallo, where he worked alongside Bernardino Lanino circa 1530. He painted the ''Polyptych of St Ambrose'' (1547) for the church of Sant'Ambrogio,

Omegna Omegna (, , ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about southwest of Verbania at the northernmost point of Lago d’Orta and traversed ...

. He also appears to have painted the ''Polyptych'' in the church of

Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo Sant'Alessandro della Croce is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Pignolo in Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. History After Arnulf of Carinthia's siege of Bergamo in 894, the Bishop of the city, Adalberto (alternately spelle ...

.Fondazione Bernareggi
2006 exhibit titled ''Una Bottega d'Arte nel cinquecento Padano - Fermo Stella e Sperindio Cagnoli sequaci di Gaudenzio Ferrari''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stella Fermo 1490s births 1560s deaths People from Caravaggio, Lombardy 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan