Giulio Cromer or Croma or Cremer (1572, Ferrara Page 621-1632) was a

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- Italian painter of the Mannerist period, active for many years in

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

, Italy. From an 1876 book: ''Giulio Cromer,

Carlo Bononi Carlo Bononi (1569? - 1632) was an Italian painter. From an 1876 book: '' Giulio Cromer, Carlo Bononi a pupil of Bastaruolo, and Alfonso Rivarola or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.'' Page 175 Biography Born and act ...

a pupil of Bastaruolo, and

Alfonso Rivarola Alfonso Rivarola (1590 – January 8, 1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Ferrara, where he was born. He is also known as ''il Chenda'' because of an inheritance he received from someone with that name. From a ...

or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.'' Page 175

Biography

Born in 1572, but While he was born in

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or to a German family in Ferrara, he trained in that city under

Domenico Mona Domenico Mona (also called ''Moni'', ''Monna'', or ''Monio'') (1550–1602) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period, born in Ferrara. Biography His biographer Cesare Cittadella (1782) describes a stormy early manhood, wherein Mona, ...

. Known to have been originally fled from a Silesian family, he was therefore was given the nickname, the German - ''il Tedesco''.

Jacopo Bambini Jacopo Bambini (1582–1629) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Ferrara. He trained with Domenico Mona Domenico Mona (also called ''Moni'', ''Monna'', or ''Monio'') (1550–1602) was an Italian painter of the lat ...

was also a pupil of Mona. He died at

in 1632. In the latter city he painted a 'Preaching of St. Andrew''. for the church dedicated to that saint; also 'The Calling of SS. Peter and Andrew.'

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Attribution: * 1572 births 1632 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Ferrara People from Austrian Silesia {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub