FERRARI, DEFENDERTE
Ferrari, Defendente
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Volume V · p. 718 · 1950
English translation · Testo originale italiano
The style of F. is essentially that of a storyteller who delights in the chromatic life of precious surfaces, in the decorative richness of fabrics and costumes. He appears archaic and yet expresses himself in a personal idiom, often achieving a fresh and straightforward manner.
Among his principal works are: the triptych of Avigliana (*Nativity*, etc., 1511); the *Madonna of Mercy* (1519; Ciriè, S. Giovanni); the *Adoration of the Child with St Veremondo* (1521; Ivrea, Duomo); the *Sposalizio della Vergine* (Turin, Museo Civico); the *Madonna and Child with St Joseph and Angels* (Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery); the stalls with 20 painted panels (Biella, former convent of S. Gerolamo, 1523); the polyptych of S. Antonio of Ranverso at Buttigliera Alta (1531).
Bibl.: F. Gamba, *L'abbadìa di S. Antonio di Ranverso a D. F. da Chivasso*, in Atti della Soc. picnionese di arch. e belle arti per la prov. di Torino, 2 (1875), p. 76; P. Tosca, *Torino*, Bergamo 1911, p. 42 ff.; S. Weber, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, XI, pp. 443–446 (with bibliography); A. Baudì di Vesme, *I principali discepoli di G. M. Spanzotti*, in Atti della Soc. picnionese di arch. e belle arti, 1908, p. 26; A. M. Brizio, *D. F. da Chivasso*, in L’Arte, 27 (1924), p. 24; B. Berenson, *Italian Pictures of the Renaissance*, Milan 1936, p. 160; A. M. Brizio, *La pittura in Piemonte dall’età romana al Cinquecento*, Turin 1942, pp. 45 ff. (with extensive bibliography).
