Gaudenzio Ferrari

Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1477/1478 in Valduggia, Sesiathal (Piedmont ); † January 31, 1546 in Milan ) was an Italian painter.

As birth year is 1475 according to the source, specified about 1481 or 1484. As a possible death years are passed in 1546, 1547 or 1549.

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

While his earlier works still remember the older school, evident in his later studies of Leonardo; always makes a vigorous naturalism contends. Its color is very strong, though often colorful, his composition usually overweight or but discordant.

Works

• Panel of the Cross on the high altar of SS Pietà in Cannobio on Lake Maggiore
• Panel plant in San Gaudenzio Novara ( 1514-15 )
• Panel plant in Busto Arsizio near Milan
• Supper, in the refectory of San Paolo in Vercelli created (influence of Leonardo da Vinci recognizable)
• Halo of Angels on the dome of the church at Saronno
• Portrait of Cecilia Benci

Many important works by Ferrari are to Varallo in Piedmont. The earliest betrayed in the churches of Santa Maria in Loreto and San Marco still the old Lombard school. More important are the frescoes in the Franciscan church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, representing, among other things, on the wall above the choir, the Passion, in the chapel on the left under the wall of the choir, the Presentation in the Temple and Christ among the Doctors. Much of Ferrari is also located in the 40 chapels of the Sacromonte to Varallo. Outside Italy, are very rare to see his works; in Paris there is a Saint Paul, in Berlin Annunciation.