Nicola Turati

The church of San Cristo in brescia houses one of the most interesting pictorial cycles of local Mannerism, painted in the sixties of the sixteenth century by the jesuat friar benedetto Marone. the examination of the biography and catalogue of the painter provides the profile of a wandering and eclectic artist, able to unify ideas resumed from the tuscan-roman school, Cremona and Venezia with brescia’s pictorial tradition; these features are confirmed by the dense succession of episodes shown within the decoration of San Cristo...