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an eminent Italian painter, was born at Brescia in 1541, and was instructed in the school of Girolamo Romanino. His greatest and most studied production is his fresco in the dome of the cathedral at Parma, representing subjects from the life of Christ. Some of his other admired works are, Cain Slaying Abel; Moses and the Brazen Serpent; Samson and Delilah; Judith ith the Head of Holofernes; Jael and Sisera; The Taking Down from the Cross. He died in 1574.