Bernardino delle Croci

[2] However, this was not the year he arrived in Brescia: in 1487, he received the balance of payment for the pedestal of the reliquary of the Holy Cross in the Duomo Vecchio, which had been commissioned following deliberations by the city's special council on 12 August 1474.

[1] Attached to the School of the Blessed Sacrament of the Basilica of San Pietro de Dom, he was appointed among the members overseeing work on the fraternity's altar by Vincenzo Foppa, a Brescian painter, on 1 May 1501.

[4][5] On 4 August 1521, the Observant Friars Minor of the San Giuseppe monastery granted him permission to build a chapel at his own expense in their church.

In the manuscript, however, there is only a reference to the purchase of some land by Bernardino and the murder of one of his sons, possibly Giovanni Francesco, by Giovan Giacomo Savallo on 6 July 1528.

There is evidence of his imprint in the Sante Spine reliquary, the San Faustino cross, as well as other similar works making constant references to Gothic art.

Bernardino delle Croci, Reliquary of the Holy Cross, 1474–1484, Old Cathedral, Brescia