10 Facts About Pellegrino Tibaldi

Pellegrino Tibaldi, known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter.

Pellegrino Tibaldi's first documented painting was likely as at 15 years of age, a Marriage of Saint Catherine.

Pellegrino Tibaldi was employed in the decoration of the Sala del Consiglio of Castel Sant'Angelo.

When Perino died in 1547, Pellegrino Tibaldi became the leader in the large-scale fresco painting of the chambers and doorways.

Pellegrino Tibaldi painted frescoes of the Story of Ulysses in the Palazzo Poggi, scenes from the life of the Baptist in the Poggi chapel, and scenes from the Life of Moses in the Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome.

Pellegrino Tibaldi constructed a chapel for his patron, in the church of S Giacomo Maggiore, and painted for it a St John preaching in the Wilderness, and the Division of the Elect from the Damned.

In Pavia, again for Cardinal Charles Borromeo, Pellegrino Tibaldi designed the monumental building of the Almo Collegio Borromeo: a university boarding school set on an airy courtyard with a perfect quadrature, characterized by the elegant Serlian architectural design of the two orders of loggias.

Also in Pavia, commissioned by Pope Pius V, Pellegrino Tibaldi was entrusted with the construction of the Collegio Ghislieri in 1567.

Pellegrino Tibaldi painted in the lower cloisters of El Escorial at the request of King Philip II.

Pellegrino's brother, Domenico Tibaldi was a painter and architect active in Bologna.