Pier Antonio Bernabei
Pier Antonio Bernabei (1570-1630)[1] was an Italian painter also known as Della Casa.
Biography
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 other public places in 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 (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 116.
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- ^ Enciclopedia metodica critico-ragionata delle belle arti, by Pietro Zani, page 235.
- ^ Reference in Parma Tourism site
- ^ Ibid.
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