Pietro Negroni, also called Il Giovane Zingaro (''the young gypsy'') and Lo zingarello di Cosenza (''the little gypsy from Cosenza'')
[Marisa Reale, Pietro Negroni - Lo zingarello di Cosenza, , FPE Franco Pangallo Editore, 2011 ] ( – 1565), was an Italian painter of the
Renaissance
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period, active mainly in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
. He was known for his altarpieces, mythological scenes and portraits.
[Francesco Abbate , ''Storia dell'arte nell'Italia meridionale: Il Cinquecento'', Donzelli Editore, 1997 ]
Life
Negroni was a pupil of the painters
Giovanni Antonio D’Amato and
Marco Cardisco
Marco Cardisco, also known as Marco Calabrese, (Born in Tiriolo c.1486 – c.1542) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples during 1508–1542.
Biography
He was a pupil of the painter and decorator Polidoro da C ...
, and strongly influenced by
Polidoro da Caravaggio
Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio ( – 1543) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now-vanished pa ...
. He painted an ''Adoration of Magi'' (1541) and ''Scourging of Christ'' for the church of
Santa Maria Donna Regina Vecchia in Naples. He painted a ''Virgin with child and angels and saints'' for
Sant'Agnello
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Sant'Agnello borders the following municipalities: Piano di Sorrento, Sorrento. It is ser ...
. He painted a ''Virgin and Child'' for Santa Croce in
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Lucca is known as one ...
. He painted milk in
Aversa and
Cosenza, and an altarpiece in the church of the Congrega of
Mongrassano in
Calabria.
Mongrassano site.
/ref> He painted a portrait of a young man now at the Galleria Borghese
The Galleria Borghese () is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate touris ...
in Rome.[
]
References
External links
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Further reading
*''Pietro Negroni as a Draughtsman'', David Jaffe. The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 127, no. 984, March 1985, pages 157, 159.
1500s births
1565 deaths
People from Cosenza
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Mannerist painters
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