Panfilo Nuvolone
Illustration — Still-life (1620). Painting by Panfilo Nuvolone (São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo). Panfilo Nuvolone (1581–1651) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, who painted both religious and still life topics, active in Cremona and Mantua.
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Panfilo Nuvolone
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- Born
- 1581 · Cremona.
- Died
- 1651 · Milan.
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- still life
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Illustration — Still-life (1620). Painting by Panfilo Nuvolone (São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo). Panfilo Nuvolone (1581–1651) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, who painted both religious and still life topics, active in Cremona and Mantua.
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Born to a Mantuan gentleman, he was the father of a family of Cremonese painters. In that town, he apprenticed with Giovanni Battista Trotti (known as il Malosso). Afterwards he moved to Milan, where fresco church ceilings, and painted altarpieces and still lifes. One of his few documented still lifes depict a bowl of peaches, and recalls the near-contemporary paintings of fruit bowls in Milan, including the 1594-98 painting in the Ambrosiana by Caravaggio and similarly themed paintings by Fede Galizia. His son, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, also a prominent in painter in Lombardy. Panfilo's younger son Giuseppe Nuvolone also a painter. Giuseppe's son Carlo was a mediocre quadratura specialist active mainly around Cremona.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Cremona and Milan. Work by Panfilo Nuvolone is recorded in the collections of Hessen Kassel Heritage, São Paulo Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.
Paintingd in the second chapel in the left-hand nave of the Basilica of Santo Stefano in Milan, Italy. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, June 17 2026.
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1581
Panfilo Nuvolone born at Cremona.
1651
Panfilo Nuvolone died at Milan.
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Cremona.
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Saint Cecilia, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Saint Agnes, Angels with Palm Branches and Crowns Above (recto); Sketches of Three Standing Figures and Arithmetic Calculations (verso) is dated ca. Recognition and collections.
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