Scipione Pulzone

Scipione Pulzone (Gaeta, c. 1550 – February 1 1598), also known as Il Gaetano, was an Italian late Renaissance Mannerist or, more properly, "counter-Maniera" painter active in Rome. He was a disciple of Jacopino del Conte. he was best known for his portraits.

He painted portraits of Gregory XIII, Cardinal de' Medici and the Grand Duke Ferdinand de Medici, Eleonora de' Medici, and Maria de' Medici. He also painted an "Assumption with the Apostles" for San Silvestro al Quirinale ; a "Pietà" for the Gesu; and a "Crucifixion" for Santa Maria in Vallicella. He died at Rome .

External links

* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/08/eusts/hod_1984.74.htm Illustration of Scipione Pulzone's "The Lamentation" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art]

References

*cite book | first= Sydney J.| last= Freedberg| year=1993| title= Painting in Italy, 1500-1600| chapter= | editor= Pelican History of Art| others= | pages= p. 660-664| publisher=Penguin Books
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 328| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=