Gaudenzio Ferrari

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Gaudenzio Ferrari

Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 – January 11, 1546) was a Northern Italian

Italy

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painter

Painting

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and sculptor

Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
of the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
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enzio was born at Valduggia

Valduggia

Valduggia is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km north of Vercelli....
in the Valsesia

Valsesia

Valsesia is a group of valleys in north-east of Piedmont in the Province of Vercelli, Italy; the principal valley is that of the river Sesia River....
in the Duchy of Milan

Duchy of Milan

The Duchy of Milan was a state in northern Italy from 1394 to 1797. It was part of the Holy Roman Empire, by then a decentralised entity, and was ruled by several dynasties, most of them major powers from outside Italy....
. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli

Vercelli

Vercelli is a city of about 44,500 inhabitants in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around the year 600 BC....
from Gerolamo Giovenone

Gerolamo Giovenone

Gerolamo Giovenone was an Italy painter of the early Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan. Also spelled Girolamo, he was born in Vercelli....
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Gaudenzio was born at Valduggia

Valduggia

Valduggia is a comune in the Province of Vercelli in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 90 km northeast of Turin and about 45 km north of Vercelli....
in the Valsesia

Valsesia

Valsesia is a group of valleys in north-east of Piedmont in the Province of Vercelli, Italy; the principal valley is that of the river Sesia River....
in the Duchy of Milan

Duchy of Milan

Vercelli

Gerolamo Giovenone

Gerolamo Giovenone was an Italy painter of the early Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan. Also spelled Girolamo, he was born in Vercelli....
. He subsequently studied in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
, in the school of the Cathedral artisan Stefano Scotto, and perhaps also in that of Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini

Bernardino Luini was a North Italian Painting from Leonardo da Vinci circle. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described to have taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend"....
; towards 1504 he proceeded to Florence

Florence

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. It was once thought that he later moved to Rome

Rome

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. He died in Milan.

Gaudenzio was not related to Defendente Ferrari

Defendente Ferrari

Defendente Ferrari was an Italy painter active in Piedmont.Ferrari was born at Chivasso, near Turin. After studying in the workshop of Giovanni Martino Spanzotti, he met a considerable success as author of polyptychs and altarpieces, characterized by a highly decorative style inspired by Northern Europe masters....
(c1490-1535) a painter from Chivasso

Chivasso

Chivasso is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 20 km northeast of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 23,675 and an area of 51.3 km?....
, nor to Eusebio Ferrari (1508-33) the painter from Vercelli.

Mature Work

His initial pictorial style may be considered as derived mainly from the old Milanese school, which had imbibed the classic influence of Leonardo and pupils such as Bramantino

Bramantino

Bartolomeo Suardi, best known as Bramantino , was an Italian people painting and architect, mainly active in his native Milan....
. However, the provincial impetus was also strong, as is demonstrated in his emotive work at the Sacro Monte of Varallo.

By 1513, Gaudenzio had depicted Christ's Passion in a fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
at Santa Maria della Grazie in Varallo Sesia

Varallo Sesia

Varallo , commonly known as Varallo Sesia, is a comune and town of c. 7,400 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli in the Piedmont region of Italy....
. Her returned to work in the chapels of the Sacro Monte of Varallo by 1524 . The chapels are dispersed over a hilltop sanctuary, connected by a winding path, and containing a combination of diorama and wax museum with life-size terracotta figures. He executed his most memorable work, a fresco of the Crucifixion (pictured right), with a multitude of figures, no less than twenty-six of them being modelled in actual relief, and colored; on the vaulted ceiling are lamenting angels. The figures include goitrous bestial assailants .

There are other works which show flashes of innovation such as the crowded chorus decorating duomo of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Saronno

Saronno

Saronno is a comune of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Varese.The place is well known for its apricot kernel biscuits and is also a manufacturing town....
or his fresco of St Anne. This painting shows the overlap of Milanese realism and Venetian colorism.

He was a very prolific painter, distinguished by strong animation. In general character, his work suggests more the 15th than the 16th century. His subjects were always religious. Andrea Solario, Giovanni Battista Cerva

Giovanni Battista Cerva

Giovanni Battista Cerva was an Italy painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Milan in the mid 1500s.. He was a pupil of the painter Gaudenzio Ferrari. One of his pupils was Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo....
, Gian Paolo Lomazzo

Gian Paolo Lomazzo

Gian Paolo Lomazzo was an Italians painter, belonging to the second generation that produced Mannerism in Italian art and architecture.Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born in Milan from a family emigrated from the town of Lomazzo....
, and Fermo Stella were his principal students.

Selected works

Pietà, in the Royal Gallery, Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
St Catharine Miraculously Saved from the Torture of the Wheel, Brera Gallery, Milan,
Frescoes in church of Santa Maria della Pace.
Virgin with Angels and Saints under an Orange Tree, Cathedral, Vercelli
Vercelli

Vercelli is a city of about 44,500 inhabitants in the Province of Vercelli, Piedmont, northern Italy. One of the oldest urban sites in northern Italy, it was founded, according to most historians, around the year 600 BC....
Last Supper, Refectory of San Paolo.
Birth of the Virgin, Annunciation, Visitation, Adoration of the Shepherds and Kings, Crucifixion, Assumption of the Virgin (1532-1535), Church of San Cristoforo.
St Paul Meditating, Louvre, Paris.
Presentation in the Temple, Christ among the Doctors, History of Christ (1507), convent of the Minorites, Varallo.
Adoration (after 1527), Santa Maria di Loreto, near Varallo
Glory of Angels (1535), Dome of the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Saronno
Scourging of Christ, Ecce Homo and Crucifixion (1542), Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.

External links

, an 8.6GP Scan of the Parete Gaudenziana that was the largest digital photo in the world when it was produced
at www.wga.hu, the Web Gallery of Art
A masterful reproduction of Ferarri's "Vita di Cristo" in 21 inside painted bottles by artist Shen Yi Wei