Defendente Ferrari

The Dispute in the Temple, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

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Defendente Ferrari (c. 1480/1485 – c. 1540) was an Italian painter active in Piedmont.

Ferrari was born at Chivasso, near Turin, and worked in the workshop of Giovanni Martino Spanzotti.

He met considerable success as a painter of polyptychs and altarpieces, characterized by a highly decorative style inspired by Northern Europe masters.

Selected works

• Triptych (1507) - in the Sacra di San Michele, Piedmont
• Nativity (1511) - Church of St. John, Avigliana, Italy
• Polyptych of Sant'Ivo - Galleria Sabauda, Turin
• Bianzè Polypthych - Museo Borgogna, Vercelli, Italy
• St. Jerome in Penitence - Turin City Museum of Ancient Art
• The Mourning of Christ - Cathedral of Chivasso, Italy
• Madonna and Child - Galleria Palatina, Pitti Palace, Florence

There are also paintings by this painter in the Chazen Art Museum(Madison,Wisconsin),Denver Art Museum(Denver,Colorado),and the Museum of Fine Arts(Budapest,Hungary)

References

• Romano, Giovanni (1996). "Ferrari Defendente". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. rome. pp. 537–541. 
• Fantino Fabrizio, Defendente Ferrari e la critica d'arte nell'Otto e Novecento, in «Annali di critica d’arte», III, 2007, pp. 175–217.
• Fantino Fabrizio, Altare ipsum est munitum icona satis pulcra: i dipinti cinquecenteschi di Gerolamo Giovenone e di Defendente Ferrari, in La chiesa di San Giovanni di Avigliana, a cura di Paolo Nesta, Borgone di Susa, 2011, pp. 149–177.
• Fantino Fabrizio, Il Battesimo di Cristo del duomo di Torino e un probabile disegno giovanile di Defendente Ferrari, in Mosaico. Temi e metodi d'arte e di critica per Gianni Carlo Sciolla, 2 voll., a cura di Rosanna Cioffi e Ornella Scognamiglio, Napoli, 2012, I, pp. 33–40.

External links

• Page with description of some works (Italian)
• Italian Paintings: North Italian School, a collection catalog containing information about Ferrari and his works (see index; plate 58).