Gennaro di Cola (c. 1320 – c. 1370) was an Italian painter of the

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, active mainly in

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. He trained with

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, and reportedly befriended

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. He worked in fresco alongside his pupil

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. His frescoes of the testament scenes in the church of

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have been lost. In Santa Maria della Pietà, he painted the ''Mater Dolorosa with dead body of Christ''.

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* 1320s births 1370 deaths 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Trecento painters Painters from Naples {{Italy-painter-14thC-stub