Bernardino Gagliardi (

Città di Castello Città di Castello (); "Castle Town") is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of ...

, 1609 -

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, 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter, generally producing

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s for churches. He joined the

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, becoming its president in 1655. Monti s Bernardino in Panisperna - cupola (Gagliardi) 1170747

Biography

He initially trained with a painter and architect named Rinaldo Rinaldi in Castello. He moved to

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to join the studio of Avanzino Nucci who was also from Città di Castello. In Rome, he painted for the churches of San Bernardino ai Monti and

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. Pope

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knighted him with a Cross of the Order of San Maurizio. Gagliardi joined the Academy of St Luke and became its president in 1655. In Rome, he painted the altarpiece ''San Pellegrino'' in the church of

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. He also painted in the cloister of San Francesco in

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, Umbria. Also called ''Bernardo Gagliardi''. He appears to be different from, and sometimes confused with, his contemporary,

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. He was instructed by

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. He returned to Città di Castello, where he painted for the Cathedral and for the Church of San Giovanni Decollato. For the local seminary, he painted a ''Deposition''. For the Church of Saint Mary of Combarbio,

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, near

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, he painted a fresco of the ''Assumption''. This Assumption inspired

Marco Benefial Marco Benefial (25 April 1684 – 9 April 1764) "Marco Benefial (Getty Museum)" (history), The Getty Museum, 2006, webpage: GM-Benefial. was an Italian, proto- Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for h ...

in his fresco for the Cathedral presbytery.Cathedral Museum
at Città di Castello.

References

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