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Flemish painter (1595–1648)
Twelve Apostles, Museo Pepoli, Trapani.
The Immaculate Conception, chiesa di Sant'Anna la Misericordia in Palermo.
Santa Rosalia, Banca Carige collection in Genoa.

Geronimo Gerardi (1595–1648) was a Flemish artist active in Italy. He was born Guilliam Walsgart or Hyeronimus Gerards.

Life

Born in Antwerp, in his youth he came into contact with Rubens and with Anthony van Dyck. From 1620 onwards he was active in Palermo and Trapani in Sicily, acting as Flemish consular agent in Trapani in 1631, remaining in that city until his death. During his time on the island he remained in contact with other Flemish painters there such as Antoon van Dyck and Giovanni Basquens.

The art historian Giovanni Mendola believes that his name ought to be the Italianisation of Guglielmo Walsgart, who he initially held to be another painter.

Works

  • Miracle of Saint Isidore Agricola (1641), private collection

Province of Palermo

Ciminna

  • Madonna and Child Crowning Saint Rosalia with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Roch' (1627), oil on canvas, church of San Giovanni Battista

Palermo

Province of Messina

Motta d'Affermo

Province of Trapani

Trapani

Genoa

References

  1. "Sololibri article" (in Italian).
  2. ^ "Carige: mostra di pittori nordici, Van Dyck protagonista con la "Sacra Famiglia"" (in Italian).
  3. Fernando Rigon, Fiamminghi e altri maestri (in Italian). 2008. ISBN 9788882655105.
  4. (in Italian) G.Mendola, Un approdo sicuro. Nuovi documenti per Van Dyck e Gerardi a Palermo, in Porto di Pittori e pittura a Palermo, 1570-1670, exhibition catalogue, V. Abbate et al. (editors), Electa, Napoli 1999, pp. 88-105
  5. Antonello Governale
  6. (in Italian) p 194, Gaspare Palermo, "Guida istruttiva per potersi conoscere ... tutte le magnificenze ... della Città di Palermo" , Volume secondo, Palermo, Reale Stamperia, 1816.
  7. Pagina 93, Fernando Rigon, "Fiamminghi e altri maestri: gli artisti stranieri nel patrimonio del Fondo Edifici di Culto del Ministero dell'Interno" , L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 2008, Pagine 140, ISBN 978-88-8265-510-5.
  8. (in Italian) Adnkronos
  9. "Palazzo Abetellis. Esposizione temporanea di un dipinto del XVII secolo proveniente dai depositi" (in Italian).
  10. "Tecla, Università di Palermo" (in Italian).
  11. magazzini Pepoli
  12. Abbate, Francesco (1997). Storia dell'arte nell'Italia meridionale: Il secolo d'oro. ISBN 9788879897204.
  13. "Banca Carige apre le porte della pinacoteca alla scoperta della Sacra Famiglia di Van Dyck. Esposti i dipinti dell'ambito di Peter Paul Rubens, di Hyeronimus Gerards" (in Italian).
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