Misplaced Pages

Niccolò Giolfino

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Italian painter
Saint Sebastian, Musée du Louvre, département des Arts Graphiques

Niccolò Giolfino (c. 1476 – 1555) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Verona.

Biography

He was a pupil of Liberale da Verona. One source attributes the influence of Andrea Mantegna. He painted mainly sacred subjects for local churches. He painted two canvases for a chapel in San Bernardino. He painted frescoes for the church of Santa Maria in Organo and in a chapel in San Bernardino. His brother, Paolo Giolfino, painted in a similar style. Another of his pupils was Paolo Farinato.

External links

References

  1. Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli XIV e XV, page 255-257.
  • Berenson, B. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. (GP. Putnam's Sons publisher, 1907) p. 235.


This article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Niccolò Giolfino Add topic