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Defendente Ferrari, born c. (1490 - c. 1540)

• Was an Italian painter active in Piedmont.
• Ferrari was born at Chivasso, near Turin.
• Here he trained and initially worked in the workshop of Giovanni Martino Spanzotti.
• Defendente achieved considerable success as a painter of polyptychs and altarpieces.
• He painted a number of nocturnal scenes such as the Nativity in Nocturnal Light (1510, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica di Torino).
• He left a number of signed and dated works. 
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