The New International Encyclopædia/Penni, Gianfrancesco

PENNI, pĕn′ē̇, Gianfrancesco, called ‘Il Fattore’ (c.1488-c.1528). An Italian painter, born in Florence. He was one of the favorite pupils and a friend of Raphael, and with Giulio Romano was his legatee and artistic executor. He painted from Raphael's designs in the Loggia of the Farnesina, and the Vatican, completed the “Coronation of the Virgin” for Monteluce, and copied the “Transfiguration” and the “Entombment.” Besides these paintings he is said to have worked on the cartoons, and to have executed the “Visitation” in the Madrid Museum, and the “Madonna del Passeggio,” in the Bridgewater Gallery, after Raphael's designs. His original work is of little importance.