Giovan Battista della Cerva
Illustration — The Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1541 Giovan Battista della Cerva (c. 1515–1580) was an Italian painter.
Giovan Battista della Cerva
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- Giovan Battista della Cerva was born on 1 January 1515. · Novara.
- Died
- Giovan Battista della Cerva died on 27 April 1580. · Milan.
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Illustration — The Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1541 Giovan Battista della Cerva (c. 1515–1580) was an Italian painter.
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Giovan Battista della Cerva was born in Novara, Italy, he was a pupil of Gaudenzio Ferrari, of whom he became the main assistant and collaborator during the last stage of his career. Works entirely by della Cerva include a Polyptych in Santa Maria di Piazza at Busto Arsizio, two altarpieces in San Nazaro in Brolo at Milan and the frescoes (together with Bernardino Lanino) in the St. Catherine chapel near the latter. He was also the master of Gian Paolo Lomazzo. Della Cerva died in Milan in 1580.
Giovan Battista della Cerva (1515–1580) was a painter.
Selfportrait with his master Gaudenzio Ferrari and his colleague Giovan Battista della Cerva. Detail from the cetnral section of the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a fresco in Saint Catherine of Alexandria chapel in San Nazaro Maggiore basilica in Milan. Detail from the left sloped side: the trial of Saint Catherine.
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Giovan Battista della Cerva born at Novara.
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Giovan Battista della Cerva died at Milan.
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