Gianfrancesco Penni

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Gianfrancesco Penni, also known as Giovan Francesco (1488/1496 - 1528) was an Italian painter, student of Raphael.

Born in Florence, Penni entered very early in Raphael's workshop, and collaborated with him for several works, including the famous Rooms of the Vatican Palace as well as the frescoes of Villa Farnesina, both in Rome. After the premature death of Raphael, Penni collaborated with Giulio Romano to the completion of works such as the Hall of Constantine, the Transfiguration, the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin (1525) in Monteluce, and the Palazzo Te of Mantua. Penni also provided designs for the tapestries of the life of Christ for Clement VII for the decoration of the Sala del Concistoro in the Vatican. In 1526, he left Rome and rejoined with Giulio Romano, who had arrived in Mantua in 1524. According to Vasari, he was not well received by Giulio Romano. Soon began a long journey through Lombardy, Rome, to Naples, where he died in 1528.

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  • Page at Artcyclopedia
  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, pp210-211. 
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