Pellegrino Aretusi (ca. 1460–1523), also known as Pellegrini de Modena and as Pellegrino Munari, was an Italian painter who was born in
Modena, Italy
Modena (, , ; egl, label= Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
A town, and seat of ...
. His early instruction was from his father
Giovanni Munari. About 1509, Pellegrino went to Rome to assist
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...
at
the Vatican. Pellegrino was then commissioned to paint
frescos in
the Church of St. Eustachio and
the Church of St. Giacomo degli Spagnuoli, both in Rome. He was murdered on 20 November 1523 by relatives of a youth whom his son had killed.
References
* Davidson, Bernice F., ''Pellegrino da Modena'', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 803, Italian Sixteenth-Century Art outside Venice (Feb., 1970), 78–86.
* Vasari, Giorgio, ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori'', many editions and translations.
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15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Modena
Italian Renaissance painters
Italian murder victims
1460 births
1523 deaths