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Simone Peterzano (c. 1540 – c. 1596) was an Italian painter of the later Mannerism native of Bergamo. He is mostly known as the master of Caravaggio.He was a pupil of Titian in Venice Peterzano debuted in Milan with the counterfaçade frescoes in San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore (1573) influenced by Veronese and Tintoretto. In the same year he painted two canvasses with Histories of Sts. Paul and Barnabas for the church of San Barnaba also in Milan.
