_Macrino d'Alba_ (Lombard: about 1470-1528).
Macrino was born at Alba in Piedmont. "There is no foundation
for the belief that his name was Giangiacomo Fava. His early
Lombard training was considerably modified by a visit to
Rome, and a study of the Florentine masters and Ghirlandajo's
influence is to be seen in his work. His pictures are easily
recognisable from the frequent recurrence of similar types
and attitudes" (Catalogue of the Burlington Fine Arts Club's
Exhibition, 1898, p. lxxvii.). The dates on his works range
from 1496 to 1508. They are to be found in the Certosa of
Pavia, at Alba, and in the Turin Gallery. He belongs to the
pre-Leonardo school of Lombardy, and was perhaps a pupil of
Vincenzo Foppa (729).
In the first group (1200) are St. Peter Martyr (for whom see 812),
with the knife and plenty of blood on his head, and a bishop in full
robes. In the second (1201), St. Thomas Aquinas looking with an almost
comic squint at a crucifix, and John the Baptist. On the pages of St.
Thomas's book are the words in Latin, "I have kept the commandments of
my father"; on those of St John the Baptist, "Behold the Lamb of God,
that taketh away the sin of the world."