JEROME OF TREVISO, the Younger. - Painter, sculptor and architect, b. at Treviso in 1497 (?) and d. in 1544 at the siege of Boulogne in France. From Bolognese documents it has emerged that he was the son of a certain Tomaso, and the hypothesis of his belonging to the family of Pier Maria Pennacchi therefore falls away.
In 1525 he is at Bologna and receives the commission for a relief for the door of S. Petronio, and the following year for the Storie di s. Antonio of the Guidotti chapel in the same church. In the years 1527-28 he would then have been, according to Vasari, at Genoa to paint the facade of casa Doria, whence he would have departed because of disagreements with Perin del Vaga, returning to Bologna. In 1530 he was to be again at Venice, where in 1531 he would have painted an altarpiece for S. Salvatore, while the lost mythological frescoes of casa Odoni dated from 1532. In 1533 he frescoes the apse of the Comenda at Faenza: then he is again at Bologna in 1537 and finally, because of ill feeling with other artists, he leaves Italy to go to England to the court of George VIII as a military engineer. Among his youthful works, after Longhi assigned to Palma the picture with S. Alesca between St. Jerome and St. Sebastian from the sacristy of S. Maria della Salute at Venice, mention should be made of the Noli me tangere in S. Giovanni in Monte at Bologna, besides the already mentioned frescoes with Miracoli di s. Antonio in S. Petronio; later his art feels the influence of Dosso and of Pordenone, as well as that of Raphael and of Parmigianino, especially visible in the Faenza frescoes of 1533. These nevertheless represent a clear point of arrival, after the uncertainties of the first works.
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