Gerolamo Muziano Biography
Girolamo Muziano (1532 – 1592) was an Italian painter, also known as the Young Man of Landscapes. He carried out his apprenticeship with the painter Romanino, who was in turn influenced by Titian. Subsequently, Muziano moved to Padua, where he worked with Domenico Campagnola and Lambert Sustris from 1544 to 1546. After a stay in Venice, in 1550 the painter moved permanently to Rome.
Muziano painted historical works in a style that took inspiration mainly from Michelangelo, with a personal style that made him famous. One of his most important works is the Resurrection of Lazarus (1555), painted for the Colonna palace in Subiaco and then placed in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore above the artist's tomb, before being transferred to the Quirinale and finally to the Vatican Museums .
In the 1570s and 1580s, Muziano became a major artist in Rome thanks to the creation of works that pleased his Counter-Reformation patrons. Among his most important paintings we can mention the "Circumcision", which was located in the church of Gesù, and S. Pietro, S. Paolo and S. Matteo and the angel in the Mattei chapel (initially intended for S. Luigi dei Francesi before the arrival of Caravaggio, where his St. Nicholas of Bari is found in the second chapel) in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Furthermore, in the Church of Santa Caterina della Rota, at the first altar on the right, you can find "Flight into Egypt". In the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, in the Aldobrandini Chapel, he created "Delivery of the Keys" and on the left wall of the transversal nave "St. Jerome preaching to the monks in the desert". The latter painting was one of two paintings that Muziano created for the altar of St. Peter's Basilica during the period in which he worked as superintendent of works for Pope Gregory XIII. Furthermore, he was responsible for re-founding the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.
