Mauro Picenardi Explained

Mauro Picenardi (1735 in Crema, Lombardy – May 30, 1809 in Bergamo) was an Italian painter.[1]

Biography

He was the son of the Cremonese painter Tommaso Picenardi, He also trained with Gianbettino Cignaroli in the latter's academy in Verona. In 1776, he painted three altarpieces for the Duomo of Cremona, depicting St Lucy, The Visitation and San Pantaleone. Ticozzi thought he was related to the family of Carlo Picenardi, a 17th-century painter.[2] [3]

Mauro Picenardi's oil-on-canvas picture Venus and Juno sold for $74,000 in a 1997 auction in New York City.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpNAAAAYAAJ Abecedario biografico dei pittori, scultori ed architetti cremonesi
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=YrVIAAAAcAAJ Gazzetta della provincia di Lodi e Crema
  3. http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/iconografia/pittori/settecento/picenardi/picenardi.html Associacione Storico Culturale Sant Agostino
  4. From the Christies auction site, viewable here (link), accessed 2014-04-25.