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Biography
Italian painter, part of a family of artists.
Attributed to Gregorio de' Ferrari, Italian,.
Gregorio de' Ferrari and his father-in-law, Domenico Piola, were responsible for decorating some of the largest and most prestigious palaces and churches in Genoa in the 1670s and 1680s - a successful partnership that continued with their sons Lorenzo de' Ferrari and Paolo Gerolamo Piola.
He came to Genoa to study law but devoted his time and energy to painting.
He studied with Domenico Fiasella from c. 1664-69, and in this period he may have painted scenes in the style of Giovanni Andrea de' Ferrari, Fiasella and Giovanni Battista Casone. He assisted Fiasella on the altarpiece St Clare Repulsing the Saracens (1667; Montoggio, parish church).
Probably after the death of Fiasella in 1669, Gregorio went to Parma, perhaps accompanied by Giovanni Battista Merano and Andrea Sighizzi (d 1684), from whom he may have acquired his skill in quadratura design. In Parma he abandoned the monumentality of Fiasella’s art, and began to dev