Girolamo da Santacroce (1480/1485-1556)

• Was a 16th-century Italian painter.
• Girolamo da Santacroce was born in Bergamo, Italy.
• He became in Venice a pupil of the painter Gentile Bellini.
• On Gentile's death in 1507, Santacroce was left in Gentile's will half of the Oriental drawings made be Gentile.
• Santacroce then most likely worked as an assistant in the workshops of Giovanni Bellini and Cima da Conegliano.
• He was a prolific artist and many of his works are signed and dated.
• It is unclear if he is related to a sculptor named Girolamo Santacroce in Naples.
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