Bernardo Parentino
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Bernardo Parentino (c. 1434 or 1437 – 1531) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Padua.
Born in Parenzo, then a Venetian town in Istria and died in Vicenza. He was influenced, if not a pupil, of the painter Andrea Mantegna. He became an Augustinian monk under name of Lorenzo. He painted Scenes of the life of San Benedetto for the cloister of Santa Giustina at Padua, and a Nativity once at the Accademia in Venice. He painted a nightmarish Temptation of St. Anthony Abbot found at the Doria Pamphilj Gallery. An Adoration of the Magi, more indepted to Giovanni Bellini is found at the Louvre Museum[1]Also known as Bernardo da Parenzo or as Parenzano.
[edit] References
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 120.
- Museum entry
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