Lorenzo Beci (active 1517–1521) is an

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painter of the

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period, active in

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

, region of

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. His surname is also sometimes written as Becci, Berti, De Becis or De Bezy, Berci, or Bezzi.

Biography

He is said to have been a pupil of

Galeazzo Campi Galeazzo Campi (1475/1477 – 1536) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance from Cremona in Lombardy. He was a pupil of Boccaccio Boccaccini. His representation was rather rigid, but careful. His landscapes show influences of Perugino an ...

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by Adolfo Venturi, Volume 3; article titled ''La Scuola Pittorica Cremonese'' by Eugenio Schweitzer, page 52. It is unclear if he is related to Zanino de Becis, also a Cremonese painter. Two paintings in oil on wood derived from a former church in Binanuova are now in the church of San Pancrazio, Gabbioneta-Binanuova.

References

Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Painters from Cremona 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub