Bartolomeo Montagna

Portrait of Bartolomeo Montagna at the Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza

Bartolomeo Cincani known as Bartolomeo Montagna (* around 1450 in Orzinuovi near Brescia , † October 11, 1523 in Vicenza ) was an important Italian Renaissance painter of his time .

life and work

B. Montagna: Madonna enthroned with St. Homoborus and a beggar, St. Francis and Blessed Bernardo da Feltre as well as St. Katharina , around 1515 ( Bode Museum , Berlin)

Montagna was raised in Venice and worked in Vicenza. He probably did an apprenticeship with Domenico Morone in Verona . He is mentioned for the first time in 1480 and in 1482 was commissioned to paint alongside Gentile Bellini and Giovanni Bellini for the Scuola Grande di San Marco pictures from the history of creation and the Flood (they were destroyed by fire a few years later). His early pictures show influences from Alvise Vivarini and the pictures painted in Venice by Antonello da Messina .

His son Benedetto Montagna (1481 to 1557/1558) supported him, for example with the frescoes for Palazzo Gualdo in Vicenza, which have not been preserved. Benedetto Montagna is best known for engravings and drawings, although some paintings have survived as well.

Some students show him as the founder of a painting school in Vicenza ( Giovanni Buonconsiglio (Marescalco), Francesco da Ponte the Elder, Luca Buscatti, Giovanni Speranza, Francesco Verla).

Works (selection)

Madonna and Child under a pergola with St. Johannes d. T. and Onofrius, 1488/89, Pinacoteca Civica, Vicenza
Landscape with castles
Virgin and Child, around 1483, Walker Art Gallery
Magdalene Altar (Saint Magdalena with Hieronymus, Paula, Monika, Augustine), Vicenza, Santa Corona
Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints, 1499, Brera Pinacoteca

literature

Alberta DeNicolo Salmazo: Montagna . Dumont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-8321-7230-5 .
Lucio Grossato: Cincani, Bartolomeo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 25: Chinzer – Cirni. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1981.
L. Puppi: Bartolomeo Montagna . Venice 1962.
L. Vertova: Kindlers Malereilexikon . dtv 1982.

Web links

Commons : Bartolomeo Montagna - collection of images, videos and audio files

Catholic Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

↑ Lucio Grossato: Bartolomeo Montagna. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).

personal data
SURNAME	Montagna, Bartolomeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cincani, Bartolomeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH	Orzinuovi
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1523
Place of death	Vicenza

[1] Lucio Grossato: Bartolomeo Montagna. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).