FERRARI, Gaudenzio, Italian painter: b. Valduggia, Piedmont, about 1480; d. Milan, 31 Jan. 1546. A scholar of Stefano Scotto, he also caught some inspiration from Perugino and Raphael. The chief characteristics of his style are correct and vigorous delineation, strong but often hard coloring, considerable power of invention and skill in the arrange ment of drapery. He lived and worked in Varallo, Vercelli and Milan, and executed in numerable paintings both in fresco and in oil, the greater part of which are possessed by the Piedmont and Lombard galleries. A few speci mens of his work are in England in private galleries. The London and the Berlin Na tional Gallery, as well as the Paris Louvre, possess one example each of his oil paintings on wood. Some of his drawings are to be found in the galleries of Berlin, Dresden, Florence, London, Milan, Munich, Turin and Venice. His most comprehensive work, the frescoes at Varallo, in Piedmont, represents the passion; another good specimen of his work, the 'Martyrdom of Saint Catharine,' in oil on wood, painted about 1545, is in the Brera Gallery at Milan. The chief of his pupils was
G.. B. della Ceroa. Consult Caccia, 'II Sacro Monte di Varallo' (Novara 1565); Colombo, G. 'Vita e Opere di Gaudenzio Ferrari' (Turin 1881); id, e Notizie In torno gli Artisti Vercellese' (Vercelli 1883) ; Crowe, J. A., and Cavaceselle, G. V., (History of Painting in North Italy' (Vol. I, London 1871) ; Halsey, E., 'Gaudenzio Ferrari' (Lon don 1904) ; Lomazzo, G. P., 'Idea del Tempio della Pittura' (Milian 1584) ; id., (Trattate dell' Arte della Pittura, etc.' (Milan 1590 and 1844) ; Pauli, G., 'Gaudenzio Ferrari' (in Thieme-Becker, (Kiinstler Lexikon,' Vol. XI, Leipzig 1915); Pianezza and Bordiga, Opere di Gaudenzio Ferrari' (Milan 1835) ; Ouroussov, 'Gaudenzio Ferrari a Varallo et Saronno' (Paris 1904).