Gaudenzio Ferrari was from Varallo in North Italy, and was active over a wide area of Lombardy and Piedmont. His early art is affected by Bergognone. Later he was influenced by the Milanese followers of Leonardo da Vinci, in particular Luini.
Gaudenzio Ferrari
active 1508; died 1546
Paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari
Christ rises in triumph from his open tomb, his burial shroud billowing around him like an aureole of holy light against the pale blue sky. In his right hand he holds a fluttering white pennant marked with the sign of the Cross, symbolising his victory over death. He looks down at us and points...
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These are two panels from an altarpiece painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari between 1508—9 for the church of Sant’ Anna in Vercelli. It was commissioned by the local confraternity dedicated to Saint Anne for the altar of their oratory.The panels of the altarpiece were arranged in two horizontal rows of...
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A saint, almost certainly Andrew, stands on a hillock in a mountainous landscape. On his right shoulder he supports the cross on which he was crucified. Andrew’s cross is usually depicted as an X-shaped saltire, but here it is T-shaped. Andrew had insisted that the cross on which he was to be mar...
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The Angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary that she will bear the son of God (Luke 1: 26-8). His words, ‘Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord be with you’, appear in abbreviated form in Latin on the scroll. The low vanishing points of this scene and its companion The Virgin Mary, also in the Nat...
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Interrupted from her reading, the Virgin Mary raises one hand in surprise at the Angel Gabriel’s announcement that she will bear the son of God (Luke 1: 26-8). Rays of golden light beam down upon her as she conceives Christ by the word of God. Her lectern and folding chair, of the so-called ‘Savo...
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