Simone Peterzano (c. 1535–1599)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He was native of Venice.
• He is mostly known as the master of Caravaggio.
• A pupil of Titian in Venice.
• Peterzano debuted in Milan with the counterfaçade frescoes in San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore (1573).
• Between 1578 and 1582 Peterzano executed frescoes in the presbytery of Garegnano Charterhouse. 
• His last works include a fresco with Stories of St. Anthony of Padua for the church of Sant'Angelo, a canvas with Madonna with Child and Saints for the parish church of Bioggio and an altarpiece with St. Ambrose between Sts. Gervasius and Protasius in the Duomo of Milan, 1592.
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