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Gaudenzio Ferrari
Italian painter and sculptor (c. 1471–1546)
Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471 – 11 January 1546) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.
Biography
Gaudenzio was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from Gerolamo Giovenone.
He subsequently studied in Milan, in the school of the Cathedral artisan Giovanni Stefano Scotti, and perhaps alongside Bernardino Luini.[1] Circa 1504 he proceeded to Florence. It was once thought that he later moved to Rome.
Famous italians in historyHe died in Milan.
Gaudenzio was not related to Defendente Ferrari (c.1490–1535) a painter from Chivasso, nor to Eusebio Ferrari (1508–1533) the painter from Vercelli.
Mature work
His initial pictorial style may be considered as derived mainly from the old Milanese school,[2] which had imbibed the classic influenc
