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Italian painter and sculptor (c. –)

Gaudenzio Ferrari (c.&#; – 11 January ) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.

Biography

Gaudenzio was born to Franchino Ferrari at Valduggia in Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from Gerolamo Giovenone.

He subsequently studied in Milan, in the school of the Cathedral artisan Giovanni Stefano Scotti, and perhaps alongside Bernardino Luini.^[1] Circa he proceeded to Florence. It was once thought that he later moved to Rome.

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He died in Milan.

Gaudenzio was not related to Defendente Ferrari (c–) a painter from Chivasso, nor to Eusebio Ferrari (–) the painter from Vercelli.

Mature work

His initial pictorial style may be considered as derived mainly from the old Milanese school,^[2] which had imbibed the classic influence of Leonardo and pupils such as Bramantin