Gabriele Capellini

Laura Pisani by Gabriele Cappellini (1525)

Gabriele Capellini was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was also called il Caligarino or il Calzolaretto (the little shoemaker), from his having first pursued that trade. He was born in Ferrara, and there trained under Dosso Dossi, he was active c. 1520. For the church of San Francesco, Ferrara he painted a St. Peter and St. James and for San Giovannino the principal altar-piece, representing The Virgin and Infant with several Saints.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 228. 

External links

• Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art