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(b Valduggia, nr Vercelli, 1475–80; d Milan, 3 Jan 1546). Italian painter and sculptor. He probably received his training at Varallo at the beginning of the 1490s, a lively period in the town’s artistic life, when extensive works were being carried out at the sacromonte (see SACROMONTE). His master was Gian Stefano Scotto (fl 1508), none of whose works has as yet been identified but who, judging from the early work of his pupil, may ... (view more)

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(b Valduggia, nr Vercelli, 1475–80; d Milan, 3 Jan 1546). Italian painter and sculptor. He probably received his training at Varallo at the beginning of the 1490s, a lively period in the town’s artistic life, when extensive works were being carried out at the sacromonte (see SACROMONTE). His master was Gian Stefano Scotto (fl 1508), none of whose works has as yet been identified but who, judging from the early work of his pupil, may have been influenced by Lombard artists. Gaudenzio’s early works, such as a painting on panel of the Crucifixion (Varallo, Mus. Civ. Pietro Calderini), were influenced by the poetic art of Bramantino and by the northern Italian classicizing style of the Milanese painter Bernardo Zenale. His early, but self-assured, Angel of the Annunciation (c. 1500; Vercelli, Mus. Civ. Borgogna), painted for the Convento delle Grazie, Vercelli, suggests that these sources were soon enriched by his response to the tender Renaissance style of Pietro Perugino (active at the Certosa di Pavia, 1496–9). Gaudenzio is also recorded at Vercelli in the first known documentary reference to him, the contract for a polyptych commissioned by the Confraternità di Sant’Anna in 1508, with Eusebio Ferrari acting as guarantor. There remain four paintings of scenes from the Life of St Anne and God the Father (Turin, Gal. Sabauda) and two of the Annunciation (London, N.G.). In these works Gaudenzio’s style is more controlled, possibly as a result of a journey to central Italy in c. 1505.  (hide)

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