Gaudenzio Ferrari

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Angels making music (around 1530–1540)
Saint Augustine and the Hermits (around 1530–1540)

Gaudenzio Ferrari (* around 1477/1478 in Valduggia , Sesia Valley ( Piedmont ); † January 31, 1546 in Milan ) was an Italian painter .

The year of birth is given as 1475 , 1481 or 1484 , depending on the source . Possible years of death are listed as 1546, 1547 or 1549 .

Ferrari was a student of Stefano Scotto, Bernardino Luini and Leonardo da Vinci . He worked in Novara from 1515 to 1518 , in Vercelli in 1521 , in Varallo Sesia until 1524 and from then until the end of his life in Milan.

While his earlier works are still reminiscent of the older school, his later works show Leonardo's studies; an energetic naturalism always asserts itself . Its color is very strong, although often colorful, its composition mostly overloaded or at least inharmonious.

Works

Numerous important Ferrari factories are located in Varallo in Piedmont. The earliest in the churches of Santa Maria in Loreto and San Marco still reveal the old Lombard school. More important are the frescoes in the Franciscan church of Santa Maria delle Grazie , which depict the Passion on the wall above the choir and the representation in the temple and Christ among the scribes in the chapel on the left under this choir wall. Much of Ferrari is also in the 40 chapels of the Sacro Monte in Varallo. Outside of Italy his works are very rarely seen; in Paris there is a Saint Paul, in Berlin there is an Annunciation of the Virgin.

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