Giulio Cromer or Croma or Cremer (1572, Ferrara Page 621–1632) was a

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painter of the

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period, active for many years in

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, Italy. From an 1876 book: ''Giulio Cromer,

Carlo Bononi Carlo Bononi (1569? - 1632) was an Italian painter. An 1876 book lists him among "the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara". Page 175 Biography Bononi was active mainly in his home territories of Emilia and Ferrara, and is considered to be a ...

a pupil of Bastaruolo, and Alfonso Rivarola or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.'' Page 175

Biography

Born in 1572, but While he was born in

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or to a German family in Ferrara, he trained in that city under Domenico Mona. Known to have originally fled from a Silesian family, he was therefore given the nickname, the German – ''il Tedesco''.

Jacopo Bambini Jacopo Bambini (1582–1629, also known as Giacomo Bambini) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Ferrara. He trained with Domenico Mona. Along with Giulio Croma (Giulio Cromer), he set up a painter's academy in Ferrar ...

was also a pupil of Mona. He died at

in 1632. In the latter city he painted a ''Preaching of St. Andrew''. for the church dedicated to that saint; also 'The Calling of SS. Peter and Andrew.'

References

Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cromer, Giulio 1572 births 1632 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Ferrara People from the Habsburg monarchy