GIROLAMO da TREVISO, the YOUNGER. — Painter, sculptor, and architect, born in Treviso in 1497 (?) and died in 1544 during the siege of Boulogne in France. Documents from Bologna have shown that he was the son of a Tomaso, thus disproving the hypothesis of his belonging to the family of Pier Maria Pennacchi.
In 1525 he was in Bologna and received the commission for a relief for the door of S. Petronio and the following year for the Stories of St. Anthony in the Guidotti chapel in the same church. In the years 1527-28, according to Vasari, he would then have been in Genoa to paint the façade of the Doria house, from which he would have left due to disagreements with Perin del Vaga, returning to Bologna. In 1530 he must have been back in Venice, for in 1531 he painted an altarpiece for S. Salvatore, while the mythological frescoes in the Odoni house dated to 1532 have been lost. In 1533 he frescoed the apse of the Commenda in Faenza; then in 1537 he was again in Bologna and finally, due to disagreements with other artists, left Italy to go to England at the court of Henry VIII as a military engineer. Among his early works, after Longhi assigned the altarpiece with St. Roch between St. Jerome and St. Sebastian in the sacristy of S. Maria della Salute in Venice to him, one should recall the Noli me tangere in S. Giovanni in Monte in Bologna, as well as the aforementioned frescoes with Miracles of St. Anthony in S. Petronio; subsequently his art was influenced by Dosso and Pordenone, as well as by Raphael and Parmigianino, especially visible in the Faentine frescoes of 1533. These, however, represent a clear point of arrival after the uncertainties of his early works.