Troso da Monza, also called Troso di Giovanni Jacobi, was an

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painter of the

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, active around 1444 in Monza and Bergamo. Some frescoes originally in the church of Santa Marie delle Grazie in Bergamo have been attributed to Troso, where he appears to have collaborated with Giacomo Georgi de' Scannardi.

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first name is sometimes also given as "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was an Italian artist and writer on art. Praised as a painter, Lomazzo wrote about artistic practice and art theory after ...

, in his ''Treatise on Painting, Sculpture and Architecture'', has a chapter on the composition of grotesques, stating ''Troso da Monza has drawn a book full of so many different and powerful grotesque figures that I believe that there are no longer any more left to invent. In that book is actually recorded anything is possible in this kind of specialty.'' The frescoes depicting the ''History of Queen Thedolinda'' for a chapel in the Cathedral of Monza have been attributed by some to Troso, others have ascribed the frescoes to the brothers

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.Lombard Towns of Italy: Or, The Cities of Ancient Lombardy
by Egerton Ryerson Williams, page 90.

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Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from the Province of Monza e Brianza 15th-century Italian painters Quattrocento painters Italian male painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub