Bernardino Gatti

Bernardino Gatti (* 1495 or 1496 in Pavia, † February 22, 1576 in Cremona ) was an Italian painter.

Gatti, called il Sojaro ( " Hooper " ), formed by Antonio da Correggio, worked in Pavia, Cremona and Parma, where he died in 1575. He imitated his example especially blessed in the delicacy and sweetness of the faces of young women and children. Parma, Piacenza and Cremona feature a variety of his works.

For the main altar of San Pietro to Cremona, he painted the Birth of Christ and the refectory 1552 the miracle of Christ with the five loaves and two fishes. At Piacenza he led to the 1553 St. George killing the dragon, out. In the church of the Madonna della Steccata to Parma in 1566 he introduced the Assumption of the Virgin in fresco dar. His main work is a Madonna with Donors in the cathedral of Pavia.