Defendent Ferrari

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Defendente Ferrari (* 1480 to 1485 in Chivasso near Turin , † after 1535 in Turin) was an Italian painter in Piedmont .

The twelve year old Christ in the Temple, 1526, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Defendente Ferrari is documented between 1500 and 1535. He was apprenticed to Giovanni Martino Spanzotti . Through him, Ferrari also took on influences from Flemish, Burgundian and French painters and he retained Gothic influences when Piedmontese contemporaries like Gaudenzio Ferrari were already under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci . He is known for several large altarpieces.

In the Gemäldegalerie Berlin there is an adoration of the child from 1511.

gallery

  • Madonna and Child, Pitti Palace

  • Virgin with Child and Saint Anna, 1528, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

  • Assumption of Mary, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

  • Polyptych by Bianzè, 1529, Museo Borgogna, Vercelli

  • Polyptych scenes from the life of Saints Crispinus and Crispinianus , 1510, Cathedral in Turin

  • Madonna and Child, 1526, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

literature

  • A. Ottino Della Chiesa in Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982
personal data
SURNAME Ferrari, Defendente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH between 1480 and 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH Chivasso
DATE OF DEATH after 1535
Place of death Turin