Born in Verona in 1528, his widowed mother married again in 1545 and Bernardino was then entrusted to his maternal grandparents, Caterina and Bernardino India, and came to take their surname. He is said to have trained with
Domenico Riccio. Between 1550 and 1555, he worked with
Eliodoro Forbicini on two rooms on the ground floor of the
Palazzo Canossa in Verona, decorating them with Olympic divinities and
grotesques, an extravagant style of ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century and subsequently imitated. In 1552, India moved to
Vicenza to decorate the
palace that Marcantonio Thiene had just had built by
Andrea Palladio. He decorated
Palladian villas such as
Villa Pojana,
Villa Foscari (also known as
La Malcontenta) where
Giovanni Battista Zelotti also worked. He worked on the small octagonal ceiling of the
Palazzo Dalla Torre in Verona. In 1584, he completed a
Conversion of Saint Paul for
Santi Nazaro e Celso. India died in Verona in 1590. File:Villa Pojana grotesque 20120927-17.JPG|Villa Pojana grotesque File:Malcontenta grotesque.jpg|Malcontenta grotesque File:Bernardino india, affreschi dalla facciata meridionale di palazzo fiorio della seta a verona, allegorie di verona, rovigo e treviso, 1555 ca.jpg|allegorie di verona, rovigo e treviso, palazzo fiorio della seta File:Pala d'altare cappella pellegrini vr.jpg|Cappella pellegrini ==References==