Girolamo Marchesi (c. 1471 – 1550) was an Italian painter of the

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period. Born in

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, whence his nickname of ''Girolamo da Cotignola'', he trained early on with Francesco Francia in Bologna, then in Rome under

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. He then traveled to

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where he was patronized by the Florentine merchant

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. According to Giorgio Vasari, he married a woman of ill repute there. In Ferrara he left an ''Adoration of the Magi'', and in the church of

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, a painting of two saints (1518). He painted with

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in Bologna. In Rimini, he painted with

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and

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, but the location and fate of those paintings can is unknown. He also painted in

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and

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. In the Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì there are: ''La Madonna con il Bambino tra due angeli, San Mercuriale, il Battista e il committente'' (or ''Pala Orsi'') and ''Portrait of a man''. His ''Entombment of Christ'' is today part of the collections of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. In Naples, he worked in San Aniello and in Monte Oliveto.

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