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Log in Sign up. Access complete market analysis. Unlock exclusive artist performance data. Art History. Book Reviews. Search History. Gregorio de Ferrari Italian - Gregorio de Ferrari was an Italian Old Masters painter who was born in Gregorio made two works inspired by Coreggio, St. He ultimately joined his father-in-law, Domenico Piola , in the prolific studio known as Casa Piola , which was founded in the s.

They were both active in the decoration of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato. They worked in styles that blended Cortona , Correggio, and Castiglione 's styles. In , he painted the Glory of St Gaestano in a vault in the church of San Siro , and it is known that he received payment in for a treatment of the Glory of St Andrew in an adjoining vault.

Later, in , he painted St Clare Repulsing the Saracens , a " During the s Gregorio joined Andrea Seghizzi , who worked as quadraturista , to fresco several ceilings in the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega , and produced a preliminary sketch for architectural decoration and allegorical figures.

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During the Bombardment of Genoa , he frescoed an Allegory of Time and sculpted a frieze in the drawing room of the Villa Gropallo. He later frescoed two vaults of the Palazzo Rosso to accompany two rooms completed by Piola. By , he had frescoed the Brignole Sale drawing room with the Myth of Phaeton and painted a small cupola fresco in its chapel both since destroyed.

Gregorio and Piola worked in the same ornamental style, but differed in that, while Piola delineated each figure in his composition clearly, Gregorio took interest in "arranging twisting, elongating figures to soar through space in a swirl of arms, legs and draperies. He also designed the surrounding quadratura , which was frescoed by Francesco Costa.

This creative treatment of the subject was appreciated by the commander of the French fleet, Jacques Bailli de Noailles, who asked Gregorio to work in Marseille. Here he worked from to , painting decorative frescoes and canvases with his son Lorenzo , after which he returned to Genoa. In he was commissioned to fresco the vault of San Paolo in Campetto since destroyed , where he painted a treatment of The Glory of Saint Paul.

Five years later, he was possibly commissioned to paint the Death of Saint Scholastica and the Virgins and Souls in Purgatory , for which he was paid in He is known to have restored Andrea Ansaldo 's dome in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato between and , his work being evident in some of the painted figures. His later paintings, such as the Pool of Bethesda , tended to be smaller in scale, often of landscapes with architectural details.

De Ferrari was born in Porto Maurizio. He came to Genoa to study law but instead became a painter. He apprenticed with Domenico Fiasella from —69, and in this period he may have painted in the style of Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and Giovanni Battista Casone. He travelled to Parma staying from to , where he worked in quadratura frescoes. It was here where he abandoned Fiasella's monumental style in favour of a more characteristic, lyrical style.

He also made copies of Correggio's frescoes in the dome of the Parma cathedral, two of which - Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Virgin with St. Jerome and the Magdalene - were later listed as the property of Anton Raphael Mengs. During this time he may have exchanged ideas with Giovanni Battista Gaulli and Andrea Carlone, both of whom informed his style of work as evidenced by certain qualities adopted after his return to Genoa, such as graceful elongations and vertical spiral movements of the figures, which in turn suggests additional influence by the sculptors Filippo Parodi and Bernardo Schiaffino.

Gregorio made two works inspired by Coreggio, St. He ultimately joined his father-in-law, Domenico Piola, in the prolific studio known as Casa Piola, which was founded in the s. They were both active in the decoration of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato. They worked in styles that blended Cortona, Correggio, and Castiglione's styles.

In , he painted the Glory of St Gaestano in a vault in the church of San Siro, and it is known that he received payment in for a treatment of the Glory of St Andrew in an adjoining vault. Later, in , he painted St Clare Repulsing the Saracens, a " During the s Gregorio joined Andrea Seghizzi, who worked as quadraturista, to fresco several ceilings in the Palazzo Balbi-Senarega, and produced a preliminary sketch for architectural decoration and allegorical figures.