# BOCCACCINO, Boccaccio [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1460–1525 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter, part of a family of painters, father of Camillo Boccaccini. He is first recorded in 1493 in Genoa, where he contracted to paint the high altarpiece \(untraced\) for S Maria della Consolazione. He studied with followers of Mantegna, at Ferrara, and was a pupil or fellow-student of Domenico Panetti. In 1497 he was extracted from prison in Milan by the agent of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and worked for the Duke in Ferrara until 1500. Perhaps as a consequence of having killed his common-law wife he then left, presumably for Venice, where he is recorded as residing in 1505. A fresco in Cremona Cathedral is dated 1506, and Cremona was his principal workplace thereafter. In Cremona he painted in Sant'Agostino a series of frescoes. A number of his paintings greatly resemble those of Perugino, among them those in the church of San Vincenzo. His influences from Perugino are probably due to a period in Rome. His son, Camillo, was his pupil, other pupils included Garofalo, and Galeozzo Campi. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation to Joachim]() - [Annunciation to Mary]() - [Betrothal of Mary]() - [Birth of Mary]() - [Christ in Majesty with the Patron Saints of Cremona]() - [Gypsy Girl]() - [Liber Iesus]() - [Meeting at the Golden Gate]() - [St John the Evangelist]() - [St Matthew]() - [Virgin and Child]() - [Virgin and Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()