Decorator, mural painter, and architect, b. 1527; d. about 1592
Tibaldi, PELLEGRINO, known also as Pellegrino da Bologna and as
Pellegrino Pellegrini, decorator., mural painter, and architect,
b. at Bologna, 1527; d. at Milan about 1592. Tibaldi was a pupil
of Bagna Cavello, and a profound student of the works of
Michelangelo. His early decorative works were executed for
Cardinal Poggi, for whom he carried out a large number of
commissions, in his palace at Bologna, the chapel he erected in
Loretto, his rooms in Rome, and a chapel in the Church of San
Giacomo in Bologna. In 1586 he went to Spain on the invitation
of Philip II, and painted in the lower cloisters of the
Escorial, after first erasing the work of his predecessors, with
which he professed to be much dissatisfied. His greatest work
was the decoration of the library in that building. He resided
for nine years in Spain, returned to Italy, settled at Milan,
was appointed architect of the cathedral, and died in that
place. His works can be studied in B