Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (1521-1575)

• Siciolante da Sermoneta was an Italian painter.
• Native to Sermoneta, he was reputed to have been a pupil of Leonardo da Pistoia.
• He was active in Rome.
• His first known work is an altarpiece once in the Valvisciolo Abbey, now in the Palazzo Caetani in Rome.
• In Piacenza he painted a Holy Family with Saint Michael (1545–1546).
• In the 1550s, he painted the Crucifixion as an altarpiece for the Spanish national church in Rome, San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, paid for by a donation from Prince Philip of Spain.
• In the 1560s, he painted a Life of the Virgin for San Tommaso dei Cenci and a Crucifixion for San Giovanni in Laterano, both in Rome.
• Also in Rome, he painted a Transfiguration for Santa Maria in Aracoeli; a Nativity for Santa Maria della Pace; and a Martyrdom of Saint Catherine for Santa Maria Maggiore in 1568.

• He painted a series of highly ornate frescoes for the Palazzo Baronale at Cisterna di Latina (destroyed during World War II).

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