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Pier Antonio Bernabei

Pier Antonio Bernabei

Italian painter

For the 20th century Italian painter (born 1948), see Pietro Antonio Bernabei.

Pier Antonio Bernabei (1570–1630)[1] was an Italian painter also known as Della Casa.

Pier Antonio Bernabei

Biography

Pier Antonio Bernabei, Crucifixion with Virgin and Saints, oil on canvas, 250 cm x 200 cm, Pinacoteca Stuard, Parma
Cupola Frescoes in Santa Maria del Quartiere.

A native of Parma, Pier Antonio Bernabei was a follower of the style of Correggio. Among his best-known works is a frescoed view of Paradise on the cupola of Santa Maria del Quartiere in Parma.[2] Another renowned fresco is the Assumption for a chapel at the church of San Martino at Traversetolo.[3] There are other works by this master at the Carmelites, and at the sacristy of the church of San Quintino, Parma. His younger brothers, Francesco and Alessandro Bernabei were also painters.

References

  • Bryan, Michael (1886). Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 116.
  1. [1]
    Enciclopedia metodica critico-ragionata delle belle arti, by Pietro Zani, page 235.
  2. [2]
    "Reference in Parma Tourism site". Archived from the original on 2006-06-08. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
  3. [3]
    "Ibid". Archived from the original on 2008-07-01. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
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