Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino (c. 1485 - c. 1566), was an

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painter active in the

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and Lombardy, near

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. His long career brought forth several different styles.

Biography

Romani was born in

. His early training and life are not well documented. A

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-esque ''Pietà'', painted for the church of ''San Lorenzo'' of Brescia, dated from 1510, is exhibited in the

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. He took up residence in Venice in his twenties, at the latest by 1513. He was commissioned to complete a ''Madonna enthroned with four saints'' for the church of Santa Giustina in

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in 1513. The coloration of the painting is of Venetian style, but the duller visages in bejeweled setting recalls styles of previous generations. He completed series of frescoes for Niccolò Orsini's Palace in

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and an altarpiece for

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. Romanino completed four frescoes in the

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of the

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in 1519-1520 depicting stories of the ''Passion of Christ''. His paintings have eclectic influences using Venetian coloration with Florentine-Lombard modeling. In the Cremona frescoes, the Lombard influence of

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is strong, in the narrative and decorative elements of the fresco. By 1521, Romanino was replaced by

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in the decoration of the church. He then returned to

to work (1521–1524) with

Alessandro Bonvicino Alessandro Bonvicino (also Buonvicino) (possibly 22 December 1554), more commonly known as Moretto, or in Italian Il Moretto da Brescia (the Moor of Brescia), was an Italian Renaissance painter from Brescia, where he also mostly worked. His ...

in the decoration of the "Cappella del Sacramento" in ''San Giovanni Evangelista''. Romanino, cristo portacroce

His ''St. Matthew and the Angel'' depicts the apostle at work under candlelight, and represents one of the first such nocturnes in Italian painting, a device which

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and

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would soon pursue. He also helped decorate the

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. A series of frescoes in the Castle of Malpaga, near Bergamo">Castle of Malpaga">he ...

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