Pellegrino Aretusi (ca. 1460–1523), also known as Pellegrini de Modena and as Pellegrino Munari, was an Italian painter who was born in

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. His early instruction was from his father

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. About 1509, Pellegrino went to Rome to assist

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at the Vatican. Pellegrino was then commissioned to paint

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s 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aretusi, Pellegrino 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Modena Italian Renaissance painters Italian murder victims 1460 births 1523 deaths