Angelo Everardi

[3] Angelo Everardi was born in Brescia as the son of a Giovanni (Joan) from Sittard in Flanders (now in the Netherlands) and Vittoria, his second wife.

[2] He studied in his home town with the Flemish painter Jan de Herdt who was working in Italy at the time and Francesco Monti (il Brescianino).

Possibly because of the similarity of the subject and the proximity in time, many scholars attributed to Everardi the altarpiece of the Crucifixion of the ten thousand martyrs placed on the second altar on the right of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Brescia.

[6] M. A. Baroncelli rejected the attribution based on the weaknesses of the altarpiece such as a crowding of the nude figures, a coldness and monotony of color and compositional failures in the lower part of the canvas.

[2] Some art historians have suggested that Everardi should be identified with the artist referred to as Maestro della Fertilità dell'Uovo who painted grotesque scenes.