In the early years of his career, Bernardino Gatti surely studied Correggio's art in Parma. Throughout his career, he consistently imitated Correggio's tonal softness and monumental figures. Gatti's surviving paintings are primarily decorative religious commissions. By 1543 he was working in Piacenza, where he completed Pordenone's frescoes in the dome of a church. He moved to Cremona six years la
