Fermo Guisoni (died after 1566) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in his native city of

Mantua Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...

. He was one of the main assistants in the studio of painter

Giulio Romano Giulio Romano (, ; – 1 November 1546), is the acquired name of Giulio Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-cent ...

. He painted the cupola of the cathedral of Mantua. He painted an admired ''Crucifixion with Peter and Andrew''. He also frescoed a cartoon of Romano's depicting ''Peter and Paul as fisherman''. According to

Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...

, the other pupils of Giulio Romano were Gian dal Lione, Raffaello da Colle Borghese,

Benedetto Pagni Benedetto Pagni (died 1578) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, active mainly in Mantua and Pescia. He was part of the team of assistants of Giulio Romano in the decoration of the Palazzo del Te or is a palace in the suburbs of Ma ...

da Pescia, Figurino da Faenza,

Rinaldo Mantovano Rinaldo Mantovano, also called Domenico Rinaldo, was an Italian painter from Mantua who was active between 1527 and 1539. According to Giorgio Vasari he was the most talented assistant of Giulio Romano during his stay in the service of the Gonzag ...

and Giovanni Battista Bertani (Mantovani).

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* * Painters from Mantua 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Mannerist painters Fresco painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub