Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta
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Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (1521 - c. 1580) was an Italian Mannnerist painter active in Rome in mid 1500s.
Native to Sermoneta, he was reputed to have been a pupil of Leonardo da Pistoia. His first known work is an altarpiece once in Valvisciolo, now in Palazzo Caetani in Rome. In Piacenza he painted a Holy Family with Saint Michael (1545-1546). In 1548, he painted a Madonna with Six Saints for San Martino Maggiore in Bologna. In 1548-1549 He completed with Jacopino del Conte Raphaelesque style frescoes depicting the Baptism of Clovis, left unfinished by Perin del Vaga in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. In 1560s he painted a Life of the Virgin for San Tommaso dei Cenci and a Crucifixion for San Giovanni in Laterano, both in Rome. Also in Rome he painted in the Sala Regia, and a Martyrdom of Saint Catherine for Santa Maria Maggiore in 1568.
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- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, pp495-499 Penguin Books Ltd.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
