Pietro Negroni

Pietro Negroni (c. 1505 - 1565) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Naples. He was also known as "Il Giovane Zingaro" and appears to have been born near Cosenza. He was a pupil of the painters Giovanni Antonio D’Amato and Marco Calabrese, and strongly influenced by Polidoro da Caravaggio. He painted an "Adoration of Magi" (1541) and "Scourging of Christ" for the church of Santa Maria Donna Regina in Naples. He painted a "Virgin with child and angels and saints" for Sant’Agnello. He painted a "Virgin and Child" for Santa Croce in Lucca. He painted in Aversa and Cosenza, and an altarpiece in the church of the Congrega of Mongrassano in Calabria [ [http://www.guzzardi.it/arberia/mappa/calabria/mongrassano/pagine/monumenti.htm|Mongrassano site.] ] . He painted a portrait of a young man now at the Galleria Borghese in Rome [ [http://www.mostratiziano.it/italiano/elenco_opere.html|Exhibition on Renaissance portraiture] ] .

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*"Pietro Negroni as a Draughtsman", David Jaffe. The Burlington Magazine (1985) pages 157,159.