Girolamo da Treviso (Girolamo Pennacchi), c. (1498-1544)

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter.
• He worked in Henry VIII's court in England.
• Born in Treviso, to a Tommaso.
• Besides working in Bologna, he also worked in Genoa, Faenza, Trent, and at the Palazzo del Te in Mantua.
• Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, writes that Girolamo traveled to England to work as a military engineer for Henry VIII.
• He also worked as a painter there.
• A Protestant Allegory in the Royal Collection shows the Pope on the ground being pelted with large stones by various figures.
• Girolamo was working as an engineer for Henry when killed by a cannon shot during the Siege of Boulogne in 1544.
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