Pier Antonio Bernabei
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For the 20th century Italian painter (born 1948), see Pietro Antonio Bernabei.
Pier Antonio Bernabei (flourished mid-16th century) was an Italian painter also known as Della Casa.
A native of Parma, Pier Antonio Bernabei was a follower of the style of Correggio. Among his best-known works is a frescoed view of Paradise on the cupola of Santa Maria del Quartiere[1]. Another renowned fresco is the Assumption for a chapel at the church of San Martino at Traversetolo[2]. There are other works by this master at the Carmelites, and at other public places in Parma.
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Graves, Robert Edmund: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 116.