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Pellegrino da San Daniele [Martino da Udine]
(b Udine or San Daniele del Friuli (Udine), 1467; d Udine, 17 Dec 1547). Italian painter. He trained in Udine and by 1490 was already a master. He was influenced by Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Battista Cima and Bartolommeo Montagna. His earliest surviving work is a Virgin Enthroned (Udine, Mus. Civ.), painted in 1494 for the parish church of Osoppo (Udine). In 1497 he began the frescoes, including episodes from the Life of Christ, for S Antonio Abate at San Daniele del Friuli. Works executed between 1500 and 1503 include the altarpiece of St Joseph for Udine Cathedral and the polyptych of saints for the main altar of the basilica of Aquileia. From 1503 to 1513 Pellegrino was painter to the Este court at Ferrara, where he worked for Ercole I, Alfonso I, Cardinal Ippolito I and Lucrezia Borgia. His works from this period, all lost or untraced, included scenery, notably for the first performance of Ludovico Ariosto’s La cassaria, in 1508. He also supervised the decoration of the Este theatre and, with Bernardino Fiorini ( fl 1505, bur 23 Dec 1523), painted the frescoes in the loggias of the Archbishop’s Palace at Ferrara. On his return to Friuli, Pellegrino continued the fresco decoration in S Antonio Abate, completed in 1522. He also painted an altarpiece of the Virgin Enthroned between SS Roch and Sebastian (1514–15; Udine, Pal. Arcivescovile), an Annunciation (1519; Udine, Mus. Civ.) and the organ doors for Udine Cathedral (1519–21). His last extant work is a polyptych of the Virgin Enthroned (1526–8; Cividale del Friuli, Mus. Archeol. N.), painted with the assistance of his pupil Sebastiano Florigerio. In the past, writers have been generous in their attributions to Pellegrino, but a more accurate assessment of his oeuvre has now been established, based on documents and the many surviving works.
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