Simone Peterzano

Simone Peterzano: Self-Portrait (1589).

Descent from the Cross, San Fedele (Milan).

Simone Peterzano , also Peterzani or Petrazzani (* around 1535 in Bergamo , † November 6, 1599 in Milan ), was an Italian painter of the late Lombard Mannerism . Today he is best known as Caravaggio's teacher .

Life

Little is known about Peterzano's early life and apprenticeship. He himself stated that he was a pupil of Titian in Venice . U. at the same time as El Greco . Peterzano later signed his pictures with Titiani alunnus or Titiani discipulus (pupil of Titian). In the later reception , doubts about this are expressed (see also “ Creating ”). His activity in Milan can be proven from 1573. The painter lived in the parish of San Giorgio al Pozzo Bianco .

In April 1584 Peterzano accepted Michelangelo Merisi, later known as Caravaggio, into his workshop for a four-year apprenticeship against payment of 24 gold scudi . It is speculated that Peterzano lived in Rome from 1586 to 1589.

Create

Peterzano's first known work are the frescoes in the Milanese church of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore (1573). The frescoes show influences from Veronese and Tintoretto . Two oil paintings depicting Saints Paul and Barnabas for the Church of San Barnaba in Milan are from the same year . Here, too, influences from Tintoretto, Moretto and the Milanese Mannerists can be observed.

A Pietà in the church of San Fedele and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit for San Paolo Converso (now in Sant'Eufemia) date from the same period .

From 1578 to 1583 Peterzano painted the frescoes in the choir of the Milan Charterhouse (Certosa di Garegnano) . These frescoes are an expression of his mature form, which should no longer develop clearly afterwards. Here he combined elements of Antonio Campi's naturalism with mannerist forms, e.g. T. were influenced by Demio . His Descent from the Cross (San Fedele, Milan), probably from the years 1583/1584, is closer to Moretto.

His later works are of a more monumental nature, such as B. the altarpiece for the Milan Cathedral (1592, now in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana ).

Despite the apprenticeship with Tizian, Peterzano's art is essentially caught in the academically rigid Lombard tradition of his time and characterized by heavy classicist forms, hard contours and naturalistic details with only occasional breakthrough Titian color and atmosphere. As early as the end of the 18th century, Luigi Lanzi wrote that Peterzano's style obviously wanted to graft Milanese expression, abbreviation and perspective onto the Titian color scheme. Elsewhere, the apprenticeship with Titian is completely questioned.

literature

Maria Cristina Terzaghi: Peterzano, Simone. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 82: Pazzi-Pia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.

Web links

Commons : Pictures by Simone Peterzano - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Maria Cristina Terzaghi: Simone Peterzano. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Howard Hibbard: Caravaggio. Harper & Row, New York 1983, ISBN 0-06-430128-1 , pp. 3-4 ( digitized ).
^ Peter Robb: M. Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney 1998, ISBN 1-875989-42-0
^ ^A ^b Ian Chilvers (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-860476-1
^ Luigi Lanzi: History of Painting in Italy from the Resurgence of Art to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Volume 2, p. 431.Barth, Leipzig 1831 ( digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Peterzano, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peterzan, Simone; Petrazzani, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1535
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bergamo
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1599
Place of death	Milan

[1] Maria Cristina Terzaghi: Simone Peterzano. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).

[hh-2] Howard Hibbard: Caravaggio. Harper & Row, New York 1983, ISBN 0-06-430128-1 , pp. 3-4 ( digitized ).

[3] Peter Robb: M. Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney 1998, ISBN 1-875989-42-0

[ox-4] A ^b Ian Chilvers (Ed.): The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-860476-1

[5] Luigi Lanzi: History of Painting in Italy from the Resurgence of Art to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Volume 2, p. 431.Barth, Leipzig 1831 ( digitized ).