Mauro Picenardi

Mauro Picenardi (Crema, Lombardy, 1735 - Bergamo, May 30, 1809) was an Italian painter.[1]

Biography

He was the son of the Cremonese painter Tommaso Picenardi, He also trained with Gianbettino Cignaroli in the latter's academy in Verona. In 1776, he painted three altarpieces for the Duomo of Cremona, depicting St Lucy, The Visitation and San Pantaleone. Ticozzi thought he was related to the family of Carlo Picenardi, a 17th-century painter.[2][3]

Mauro Picenardi's oil-on-canvas picture 'Venus and Juno' raised $74,000 in a 1997 auction in New York City.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Abecedario biografico dei pittori, scultori ed architetti cremonesi, by Giuseppe Grasselli, Giovanni Valle, page 205.
  2. ↑ Gazzetta della provincia di Lodi e Crema, page 548.
  3. ↑ Associacione Storico Culturale Sant Agostino, regarding frescoes (1775) at the church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Berbenno.
  4. ↑ From the Christies auction site, viewable here (link), accessed 2014-04-25.


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