Giulio Cromer

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 been originally fled from a Silesian family, he was therefore was given the nickname, the German - il Tedesco.[1]

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.'

References
  1. Fiorillo, Johann Dominik (1801). Geschichte Der Zeichnenden Künste Von Ihrer Wiederauflebung Bis Auf Die Neuesten Zeiten: Geschichte der venezianischen, lombardischen und der übrigen italienischen Schulen (in German). J. G. Rosenbusch. Page 621
  2. A hand-book for travellers in central Italy: including the Papal states., John Murray (firm), page 631.
  3. Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert (1876). In Venetia, Parma, the Emilia, the Marche, and morthern Tuscany. G. Routledge & sons. Page 175

Attribution:

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cromer, Giulio". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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