Antonio Ponzano

Antonio Ponzano, Ponzoni or Bonzone (died 1602, in Munich) was an Italian Mannerist painter active in the 16th century.

He was a studio assistant to Giulio Licinio in 1565 at the court of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna.

Some of Ponzano's paintings from 1570 to 1572 with 'grottesche' survive in the Fugger palace in Augsburg, as well as some of his studio work for Sustris.

He also assisted Sustris and Alessandro Scalzi (known as Il Paduano) on their 1580 work at Trausnitz Castle in Landshut, where Ponzano worked on the lodges in the castle, creating scenes of mythological love affairs.

Sustris designed the Grottenhof at the Munich Residenz, with the shells and grotesques painted by Ponzano and the Dutchman Pieter de Witte.