Gaudenzio Ferrari

Gaudenzio Ferrari , c.1480-1546, Italian painter, one of the leading representatives of the Lombard school. He worked chiefly in the churches of Varallo (N Piedmont), Vercelli, and Milan and produced many paintings, most of them now in the galleries of Lombardy and Piedmont. At its best his art is characterized by inventiveness, fine feeling for the dramatic and decorative, and bright and pleasing color. Notable examples include the frescoes in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Varallo; incidents in the lives of Mary Magdalene and the Virgin, in the Church of San Cristoforo, Vercelli; Choir of Singing Angels, in Santa Maria dei Miracoli, at Saronno; and the Scourging of Christ, in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.

Ferrari, Gaudenzio (c.1470/80–1546). Italian painter and sculptor, active over a wide area of Lombardy and his native Piedmont. His early paintings were strongly influenced by Leonardo and his Milanese followers, and throughout his life he remained eclectic, absorbing into his highly charged, emotional style elements from Pordenone and Lotto and also, for example, from the engravings of Dürer. He was prolific and an artist of considerable power and individuality, but his work has remained comparatively little known because much of it is in fairly remote locations. His most remarkable works are the Stations of the Cross (c.1520–6) in a series of chapels at the Sanctuary of Sacro Monte, Varallo; here he combined highly realistic life-size sculptures in painted terracotta with a frescoed background.

Ferrari, Gaudenzio (b Valduggia, nr. Varallo, c.1470/80; d Milan, 3 Jan. 1546). Italian painter and sculptor, active over a wide area of Lombardy and his native Piedmont. His early paintings were strongly influenced by Leonardo and his Milanese followers, and throughout his life he remained eclectic, absorbing into his highly charged, emotional style elements from Pordenone and Lotto and also, for example, from the engravings of Dürer. He was prolific and an artist of considerable power and individuality, but his work has remained comparatively little known because much of it is in fairly remote locations. His most remarkable works are the Stations of the Cross (c.1520–6) in a series of chapels at the sanctuary of Sacro Monte, Varallo; here he combined highly realistic life-size sculptures in painted terracotta with a frescoed background.