Cesare Tamarocci or Tamarozzo or Tamaroccio was an Italian painter of the School of

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, active during the early 16th century, the pupil of

Francesco Francia __NOTOC__ Francesco Francia, whose real name was Francesco Raibolini (1447 – 5 January 1517) was an Italian painter, goldsmith, and medallist from Bologna, who was also director of the city mint.Levinson:492 He may have trained with Marco Zop ...

. In 1504–1506, the Chapel of Santa Cecilia in Bologna was frescoed with ten panels by the painters Aspertini,

, Chiodarolo,

Lorenzo Costa Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Biography He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked in ...

, and Tamarocci. The ''Baptism of Valerian'' and the ''Martyrdom of Cecilia'' by Pope Urban have been generally attributed to Tamarocci, also Corrado Ricci attributed the figures at the background to Chiodarolo, and other improbably assigned it to

Giacomo Francia Giacomo Raibolini (1484 – 3 January 1557), also called Giacomo Francia or Jacopo Francia, was an Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period. Francia was born in Bologna as elder son of Francesco Raibolini (Francesco Francia), an ...

(died 1575). The supervision of the entire series of frescoes may have been led by Costa. A ''Madonna and Child, with young St John'' is in

Museo Poldi Pezzoli The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy. It is located near the Teatro alla Scala, on Via Manzoni 12. The museum was originated in the 19th century as a private collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822–1879) and his m ...

in Milan.''The painters of the school of Ferrara''
(1911), by Edmund Garratt Gardner, Page 194.

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