Simone Peterzano

Place: Venice

Born: 1540

Death: 1596

Biography:

Simone Peterzano (c. 1535–1599) was an Italian painter of the later Mannerism, native of Venice. He is mostly known as the master of Caravaggio. A pupil of Titian in Venice, Peterzano debuted in Milan with the counterfaçade frescoes in San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore (1573), influenced by Veronese and Tintoretto. In the same year he painted two ...