Girolamo Romani (Romanino) (c. 1485 – c. 1566)

• Was an Italian High Renaissance painter active in the Veneto and Lombardy.
• His long career brought forth several different styles.
• In 1531 to 1532, he worked with Dosso Dossi in fresco decoration of Castello del Buoncosiglio in Trento.
• His main pupils were his son-in-law Lattanzio Gambara, Girolamo Muziano, and Stefano Rosa.
• Shortly after the 1940 Nazi invasion of France, Romanino's painting Christ Carrying the Cross was stolen from the household of Frederico Gentili di Giuseppe, an Italian Jew.
• In 2012, it was discovered among items lent to an American museum from an Italian museum.
• Through the help of an anonymous tip, Interpol and the United States Department of Homeland Security, it was eventually returned to Gentili's heirs.
• Presently it is insured for US $2.5 million.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Girolamo Romani, Saint Jerome, c. 1535-40.
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