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

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style in

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 inhabitants, Parma is the second mos ...

Biography

He was a near contemporary of

Michelangelo Anselmi Michelangelo Anselmi (c. 1492 – c. 1554) 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, know ...

, and is known to have worked on designs of

Antonio da Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...

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 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Parma Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub