Biography

Italian painter, part of a family of painters, one of the three sons of Bernardino Lanino. In August 1580 Girolamo worked with his father to draw and then paint a tabernacle for the Church of Madonna di Campagna (untraced). In 1586 he painted a panel depicting the Virgin with the Child, Apollonia and a devotee (formerly in the chapel of the castle of Parella, now lost). The workshop of Girolamo and his brother Pietro Francesco executed the Nativity for the Sacro Monte di Pietà, Novara.

In 1589 Girolamo signed and dated the frescoes in the chapel of the Annunciation of the parish church of Candia Lomellina, depicting the Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Prophets, Angels and a frieze with the Allegory of Time. In these frescoes, especially for the angels of the vault, the artist used the cartons that had been made by his father several years before for the decoration of the church of San Francesco in Vercelli.