G M Francesco Rondani Retrato de hombre barbado con sombrero de plumas

Giovanni Maria Francesco Rondani (15 July 1490 – September 1550) was an Italian painter, active in a

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

style in

Parma Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, ...

Biography

He was a near contemporary of

Michelangelo Anselmi Michelangelo Anselmi ( – ) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active mostly in Parma. Biography He was born, apparently in Tuscany, perhaps in Lucca, from a Parmesan family of ancient Langobard origin, known as Anselmi di Card ...

, and is known to have worked on designs of

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for the frescoes (1522) in the ''Cappella del Bono'' of the church of

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in Parma. Rondani also worked with Anselmi in the ''Oratorio della Concezione'' of the church. He also painted scenes of ''

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'' and of the ''Life of St Anthony Abbot'' in Capella Centoni in

Partial Anthology

*''Madonna in Glory with Saint Gregory and Saint Sebastian'', (Pinacoteca, Parma) *''Assunta'', (

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, Naples)

References

* 1490 births 1550 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Parma Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub