Romanino [SEP] place of death
Romanino
Girolamo Romani (Romanino) (c. 1485 – c. 1566) was an Italian High Renaissance painter active in the Veneto and Lombardy, near Brescia. His long career brought forth several different styles.
Biography.
Romani was born in Brescia. His early training and life are not well documented.
A Quattrocento-esque "Pietà", painted for the church of "San Lorenzo" of Brescia, dated from 1510, is exhibited in the Accademia. He took up residence in Venice in his twenties,
the three sleeping putti to the right, evidently modelled on the "Tondo of the innocents" by Romanino (Musei civici di Padova), which dates to 1513. Several copies of it are known, one of the best of which is that at Rome's Doria Pamphilj Gallery.
After being painted the masterpiece fell into the hands of Matthaus Hopfer. He was known to have a house in the Grottenau filled with ‘poetic fable’ frescoes. After his death in 1611 it was passed down to the Ebert family,