Ferrari, GAUDENZIO, Italian painter, was born at Valduggia, in Piedmont, in 1484. A scholar of
Andrea Scotto, he also caught some inspiration from Da Vinci and Raphael. The chief characteristics of his style are correct and vigorous delineation, strong but often hard colouring, considerable power of invention, and skill in the arrangement of drapery. He executed innumerable paintings both in fresco and in oil, the greater part of which are possessed by the Lombard galleries. His most comprehensive work, the frescoes at Varallo, in Piedmont, represents the Passion; another good specimen of his work, the 'Martyrdom of St Catharine,' is in the Brera Gallery at Milan. He died at Milan in 1549. The chief of his pupils was Andrea Solario. See Colombo, Vita di Ferrari (Turin, 1881).