Mercurio Baiardo

 ( 16th-century Italian Painters ) 

Mercurio Baiardo or Bajardo (active 1555–1574) was an Italian painter, active during the Renaissance art in Parma. He was a pupil of Parmigianino. In 1568, he painted in chiaro-oscuro, figures for pilasters of the dome of the church of the Steccata. Parma, by Laudedeo Testi, page 86-89. Emilia Romagna, by Touring Club Italiano, page 499. For the church of Santa Maria del Quartiere, he painted a Madonna and Lactating Child (1574). Dizionario biografico dei Parmigiani illustri o benemeriti nelle scienze, by Giovanni Battista Janelli, page 33. Nuovissima guida per osservare le pitture si a olio che a fresco esistenti nelle chiese di Parma, by Giuseppe Bertoluzzi, page 154. He also painted frescoes for the Palazzo Venturini, Parma.