Lot 5: Ferrau Fenzoni (Faenza 1562-1645)

82.2 x 64.8 cm. (32 3/8 x 25 1/2 in.)</I><br>See front cover illustration

Comparatively little is known of Fenzoni's early training. The first recorded works by him date from the late 1580s when he was in Rome, and where he painted his most important commission for the small chapel of San Francesco in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. By 1593 Fenzoni was in Todi where he completed the fresco of the Last Judgement, reminiscent of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and later settled in his home town of Faenza in 1599, where he married and remained until his death. Fenzoni's distinctive style is characterized by his description of light and the way in which he renders the landscape and sunlight.