Pietro Negroni

Pietro Negroni (c. 1505 - 1565) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was also known as Il Giovane Zingaro and appears to have been born near Cosenza. He was a pupil of the painters Giovanni Antonio D’Amato and Marco Calabrese, and strongly influenced by Polidoro da Caravaggio. He painted an Adoration of Magi (1541) and Scourging of Christ for the church of Santa Maria Donna Regina in Naples. He painted a Virgin with child and angels and saints for Sant’Agnello. He painted a Virgin and Child for Santa Croce in Lucca. He painted in Aversa and Cosenza, and an altarpiece in the church of the Congrega of Mongrassano in Calabria . He painted a portrait of a young man now at the Galleria Borghese in Rome .

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 112. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
• Pietro Negroni as a Draughtsman, David Jaffe. The Burlington Magazine (1985) pages 157,159.