Cotignola, 1490 (?) - Bologna, 1559 (?)
The formation of the artistic personality of Girolamo Marchesi, active in Romagna and in Bologna, is rather complex as it reflects the influence of various painters.
Following his apprenticeship with the Zaganelli, the art of Marco Palmezzano makes its contribution and even more so that of modern manner of Girolamo Genga, who worked in Cesena in the church of St. Augustine in 1513.
It may have been a stay in Rome in 1520 that provokes a sudden change in the pictorial production of Marchesi, who passes from the archaic style pertaining to his early years to a contemporary one inspired by the artistic results reached in central Italy, with particular reference to Raphaelite classicism, typical of the Bologna period.
Two fragments of panel depicting San Gregorio Magno
and portrait of a patron (ritratto di committente
), attributed to his catalogue are contained in the Gallery.
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