Bernardo Parentino

Bernardo Parentino, also known as Bernardo Parenzano (c. 1450 – c. 1500) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Padua. To his detriment, he is still being confused and superimposed by another person with the same name, an Augustine monk who took the name Fra Lorenzo (c. 1437–1531) and who died in the Monastery of St. Michael in Vicenza.

Temptation of St Anthony Abbot
Adoration of the Magi

Born in Parenzo, then a Venetian town in Istria and died in Vicenza. He was influenced, if not a pupil, of the painter Andrea Mantegna. He painted Scenes of the life of San Benedetto for the cloister of Santa Giustina at Padua, and a Nativity once at the Accademia Gallery in Venice. An Adoration of the Magi, more indebted to Giovanni Bellini is found at the Louvre Museum[1] He painted a nightmarish Temptation of St Anthony Abbot found at the Doria Pamphilj Gallery. Also known as Bernardo da Parenzo or Parenzano.

A catalogue of attributed paintings was listed in 1908, noting he was often confused with contemporaries of the school of Ferrara.[2]

References
  • Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 120.
  • Museum entry
  1. "Adoration of the Magi". Archived from the original on 2004-09-12. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  2. Bolletino dell'Arte dell Ministero della Pubica Istruzione, Editor E. Calzone, Rome (1908):page vii-x.


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