Pietro Negroni
Pietro Negroni, also called Il Giovane Zingaro (the young gypsy) and Lo zingarello di Cosenza (the little gypsy from Cosenza) (c. 1505 – 1565), was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was known for his altarpieces, mythological scenes and portraits.
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- Name
- Pietro Negroni
- Born
- c. 1505, Cosenza, Italy
- Died
- 1565
- Occupation
- painter
- Teachers
- Marco Cardisco.
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Pietro Negroni, also called Il Giovane Zingaro (the young gypsy) and Lo zingarello di Cosenza (the little gypsy from Cosenza) (c. 1505 – 1565), was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was known for his altarpieces, mythological scenes and portraits.
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Biography
Biography
Training under Marco Cardisco is recorded. Places of work recorded in the authority are Geographical region of Italy. Work by Pietro Negroni is recorded in the collections of Hermitage Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Museo di Capodimonte, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans and Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Pietro Negroni • Born — c. 1505, Cosenza, Italy • Died — 1565 • Occupation — painter
Life
Life
Negroni was a pupil of the painters Giovanni Antonio D’Amato and Marco Cardisco, and strongly influenced by Polidoro da Caravaggio. He painted an Adoration of Magi (1541) and Scourging of Christ for the church of Santa Maria Donna Regina Vecchia in Naples. He painted a Virgin with child and angels and saints for Sant'Agnello. He painted a Virgin and Child for Santa Croce in Lucca. He painted milk in Aversa and Cosenza, and an altarpiece in the church of the Congrega of Mongrassano in Calabria. He painted a portrait of a young man now at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
Works and production
Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. The record continues: venus and Adonis. Bacchus and Ariadne.
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Italia.
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Calabria.
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Lazio.
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- 1.Stefano De Mieri. Negroni, Pietro, detto lo Zingarello. 78.
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