Girolamo da Treviso

Girolamo da Treviso
Portrait in Vasari's Vite
Born	1498 Treviso, Republic of Venice
Died	1544 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Painting

Girolamo da Treviso (Treviso, 1498^[1] – Boulogne-sur-Mer, September 10, 1544), also known as Girolamo di Tommaso da Treviso the Younger and Girolamo Trevigi, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter in Henry VIII's court in England.

Biography

Born in Treviso, to a Tommaso. The identity of Girolamo da Treviso the Elder, remains unclear.

He was likely not a pupil of Pier Maria Pennacchi, as supposed in the 19th century.^[2]

Stylistically, Girolamo is associated with Giorgionismo and the continuation of Giorgione's style, and, while working in Bologna during the 1520s, the influence of Raphael's St. Cecilia.^[3] Besides working in Bologna, which included sculptural decoration on the portal of San Petronio and grisaille paintings inside, he also worked in Genoa, Faenza, Trent, and at the Palazzo del Te in Mantua.^[4] Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, writes that Girolamo traveled to England to work as a military engineer for Henry VIII.^[5] He also worked as a painter there,^[6] A Protestant Allegory in the Royal Collection shows the Pope on the ground being pelted with large stones by various figures.^[7] Girolamo was working as an engineer for Henry when killed by a cannon shot during the Siege of Boulogne in 1544.^[8]

Gallery

• 
  Sleeping Venus
• 
  Isaac blessing Jacob, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
• 
  Frescoes in church of Church of the Commenda, Faenza

See also

• Artists of the Tudor court
• List of The Tudors episodes

Notes

1. See ‘GIROLAMO da Treviso, il Giovane’, by Alessandro Serafini in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 56 (2001).
2. See ‘GIROLAMO da Treviso, il Giovane’ entry in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 56.
3. Freedberg (1993): 164, 409.
4. Tempestini.
5. Vasari (1996): 888–889.
6. Pouncey (1953): 211; Tempestini.
7. Royal Collection
8. Vasari (1996): 889.

References

Primary Sources

• Vasari, Giorgio (1996). Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Vol. 1. David Campbell Publishers. ISBN 1-85715-779-6.
• The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari

Secondary Sources

• Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 447.
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-300-05587-0.
• Pouncey, Philip (June 1953). "Girolamo da Treviso in the Service of Henry VIII". The Burlington Magazine. 95 (603): 208, 210–211.
• Tempestini, Anchise. "Girolamo (di Tommaso) da Treviso (il giovane) (ii)". Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2007-07-22.

External links

• Two works by Girolamo da Treviso at the National Gallery, London