Gianfrancesco Penni

Gianfrancesco Penni, Virgin with Blue Diadem, 1512. Louvre

Gianfrancesco[1] Penni (1488/1496–1528), called il Fattore,[2] was an Italian painter. His brother Bartolommeo was an artist of the Tudor court of Henry VIII,[3] and another brother, Luca, ended up as one of the Italian artists of the School of Fontainebleau.[4]

  1. ^ Often Giovan Francesco.
  2. ^ Bisceglia, Anna (2015). "Penni, Giovan Francesco, detto il Fattore". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 82: Pazzi–Pia (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
  3. ^ Waterhouse, E. K. (1992). Painting in Britain, 1530–1790. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05319-3
  4. ^ Luca Penni, Getty Museum website.