Bernardino India

[1] Between 1550 and 1555, he worked with Eliodoro Forbicini on two rooms on the ground floor of the Palazzo Canossa in Verona, decorating them with Olympic divinities and grotesques, an extravagant style of ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century and subsequently imitated.

In 1552, India moved to Vicenza to decorate the palace that Marcantonio Thiene had just had built by Andrea Palladio.

Intended to celebrate the cities of the Mainland where the silk industry flourished, they are now preserved at the Civic Museums of Verona.

[1] Sometime between 1560 and 1570, India painted a fresco depicting Coriolanus receiving the Roman matrons for the Palazzo Da Lisca near Santa Maria in Organo.

In 1576, he did a Virgin enthroned the saints Giovanni Battista and Rocco for the parish church of St. Andrew in Sommacampagna.