caption death_date death_place birth_place training image_size nationality field birth_date image article_title name
self portrait -lrb- 1589 -rrb- ca . 1596 1540 milan bergamo titian 120px italian painting ca. 1540 peterzano 1589.jpg simone peterzano
 simone peterzano
simone peterzano

simone peterzano -lrb- c. 1540 - c. 1596 -rrb- was an italian painter of the later mannerism , native of bergamo .
he is mostly known as the master of caravaggio .
he was a pupil of titian in venice , peterzano debuted in milan with the counterfaçade frescoes in san maurizio al monastero maggiore -lrb- 1573 -rrb- , influenced by veronese and tintoretto .
in the same year he painted two canvasses with `` histories of sts .
paul and barnabas '' for the church of san barnaba , also in milan .
also from the same period are a `` pietà '' in the church of san fedele and a `` pentecost '' for san paolo converso -lrb- now in sant ` eufemia -rrb- .
between 1578 and 1582 peterzano executed frescoes in the presbytery of garegnano charterhouse , considered one of his masterworks .
his last works , characterized by a cold monumental style , include a fresco with `` stories of st. anthony of padua '' for the church of sant ` angelo , a canvas with `` madonna with child and saints '' for the parish church of bioggio -lrb- canton ticino -rrb- and an altarpiece with `` st. ambrose between sts .
gervasius and protasius '' in the duomo of milan -lrb- 1592 , now in the pinacoteca ambrosiana -rrb- .
