Pellegrino Aretusi (ca. 1460–1523), also known as Pellegrini de Modena and Pellegrino Munari, was an Italian painter who was born in Modena, Italy. His early instruction was from his father Giovanni Munari. About 1509, Pellegrino went to Rome to assist

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at the Vatican. Pellegrino was then commissioned to paint

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s in the Church of St. Eustachio and the Church of St. Giacomo degli Spagnuoli, both in Rome. He was murdered on 20 November 1523 by relatives of a youth whom his son had killed.

References

* Davidson, Bernice F., ''Pellegrino da Modena'', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 803, Italian Sixteenth-Century Art outside Venice (Feb., 1970), 78–86. * Vasari, Giorgio, ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'', many editions and translations. 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Modena Italian Renaissance painters Italian murder victims 1460 births 1523 deaths {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub