- Gianfrancesco Penni
Gianfrancesco Penni, also known as Giovan Francesco (1488/1496 – 1528) was an Italian painter, student of
Raphael .Born in
Florence to a family of weavers, Penni entered very early inRaphael 's workshop, and collaborated with him for several works, including the famous Rooms of theVatican Palace as well as the frescoes ofVilla Farnesina , both inRome . Wölfflin and some other writers credited him with the entire actual execution of theRaphael Cartoons , though more recent writers believe Raphael did much of the work himself. After the premature death of Raphael, Penni collaborated withGiulio Romano to the completion of works such as the Hall of Constantine, the "Transfiguration", the "Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin" (1525) inMonteluce , and thePalazzo Te ofMantua . Penni also provided designs for the tapestries of the "life of Christ" forClement VII for the decoration of the "Sala del Concistoro" in the Vatican. In 1526, he left Rome and rejoined with Giulio Romano, who had arrived in Mantua in 1524. According to Vasari, he was not well received by Giulio Romano. Soon began a long journey through Lombardy, Rome, to Naples, where he died in 1528. Among Penni's pupils wasLeonardo da Pistoia (Grazia).His brother Bartolommeo was an artist of the Tudor court of
Henry VIII , [Ellis Waterhouse, "Painting in Britain, 1530-1790", p. 16, 4th Edn, 1978, Penguin Books (now Yale History of Art series)] and another brother, Luca, ended up as one of the Italian artiists of theSchool of Fontainebleau . [ [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=296 Getty biography] ]References
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* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/penni_giovan_francesco.html Page at Artcyclopedia]
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