Ferraù Fenzoni
Italian painter (1562-1645)
Ferraù Fenzoni (1562 – 11 April 1645) was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a canvas and fresco painter of biblical and religious subjects who worked in a late Mannerist style. He trained and worked in Rome in his youth and later he worked on important commissions in Todi and his native Faenza. He is also called 'Ferraù da Faenza' and 'Il Faenzone' after his birthplace Faenza.
Life
Ferraù Fenzoni was born in Faenza and moved to Rome as a young man in the early 1580s. He was apprenticed in Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII and worked on numerous fresco cycles under pope Sixtus V, such as the Loggia della Benedizioni in the Lateran Palace, the frescoes on the walls and vaults of the Scala Santa of the adjacent Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, and the decoration in the Sistine library.
From 1594, he worked in Todi. He made illusionistic decorations in the bishop's palace ánd various altarpieces and murals in the Cathedral of Todi. Most of the latter is lost except for an impressive Last Judgement.
He returned to Faenza in 1599 where he remained for the rest of his career.
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