Giulio Cromer Explained

Giulio Cromer or Croma or Cremer (1572, Ferrara[1] -1632)[2] was a German-Italian painter of the Mannerist period, active for many years in Ferrara, Italy.

From an 1876 book:

Giulio Cromer, Carlo Bononi a pupil of Bastaruolo, and Alfonso Rivarola or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.[3]

Biography

Born in 1572, but While he was born in Silesia or to a German family in Ferrara, he trained in that city under Domenico Mona.

Known to have originally fled from a Silesian family, he was therefore given the nickname, the German - il Tedesco.

Jacopo Bambini was also a pupil of Mona. He died at Ferrara in 1632. In the latter city he painted a 'Preaching of St. Andrew. for the church dedicated to that saint; also 'The Calling of SS. Peter and Andrew.'

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Fiorillo, Johann Dominik. Geschichte Der Zeichnenden Künste Von Ihrer Wiederauflebung Bis Auf Die Neuesten Zeiten: Geschichte der venezianischen, lombardischen und der übrigen italienischen Schulen. 1801. J. G. Rosenbusch. de. Page 621
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=gXg_FTfqTrQC A hand-book for travellers in central Italy: including the Papal states.
  3. Book: Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert. In Venetia, Parma, the Emilia, the Marche, and morthern Tuscany. 1876. G. Routledge & sons. en. Page 175