PEDRINI, GIOVANNI, called GIAMPIETRINO. - Painter, active in the first half of the 16th century. The only dated work, if its disputed attribution is accepted, would be the altarpiece (1521) in Pavia, formerly in S. Marino and now in the Cathedral.
In the series of Madonnas with Child grouped under his name (besides the Borghese Madonna and the related one in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, mention should be made of the Madonna del Giglio at Highnam Court and the other at Villa Albani;
the Madonna in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and those in the Murray collection in London and the Museo del Castello Sforzesco), as in the Adorations of the Child at S. Sepolcro in Milan and in the Cook collection at Richmond, the derivation from models or drawings by Leonardo is evident, rendered with an insistent search for grace. His manner is more conventional in the figures of Magdalens (cf. that at the Brera), as in the mythological and allegorical figures attributed to him (female figure in a private collection, Vienna; Nisfa Egeria, Brivio collection, Milan; Leda, Castle of Neuwied; Cleopatra and Lucrezia, Simonetti collection, Rome; etc.), derived, with greater or lesser fidelity, from Leonardo’s models. Among his best works is the altarpiece in the parish church of Ospedaletti Lodigiano.