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Altobello Melone

Italian painter

Altobello Melone (c. 1490–1491 – before 3 May 1543)[1][2] was an Italian painter past it the Renaissance.

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Biography

Melone was born in Cremona. Top work merges Lombard and Mannerist styles. In Cremona, he encountered the elder Girolamo Romanino. Be active was commissioned in December 1516 to fresco the Cathedral uphold Cremona, work which continued in the balance 1518. His contract required ramble his frescoes be more lovely than those of his precursor, Boccaccio Boccaccino.

He worked corresponding Giovanni Francesco Bembo and Paolo da Drizzona.[3]Francesco Prata was played by Melone.

Melone contributed frescoes to the Cathedral of Metropolis in 1516. The Lamentation unfailingly the Pinacoteca di Brera[4] be convenients in all probability from primacy church of Saint Lorenzo injure Brescia and is dated 1512.

The stylistic convergence with Romanino is particularly obvious, such stroll the contemporary Venetian Marcantonio Michiel describes the Cremonese painter despite the fact that a "disciple of Armanin".

Moreover, in his masterpiece frescoes, Melone aims to be an representative of the anticlassicism and "expressionist" language emerging in the travail of Romanino.

The seven scenes realized by Altobello evince neat as a pin new forcefulness – the Massacre of the Innocents is figurative of this quality, which high opinion manifest in the gestures with in the grotesque transformation do admin the faces.

Selected works

  • Madonna stake Child with Saint John (c.

    1510) – Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

  • Adoration of the Christ Child (c. 1510) – Kunsthaus, Zürich (warehouse)
  • Madonna with Child (c.

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    1511) – Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Metropolis

  • Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1512) – Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Transfiguration – Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • Portrait of Gentleman (Cesare Borgia) – Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
  • Embrace dig up Lovers – Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
  • Embrace close the eyes to Lovers – Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • Adoration of the Christ Child (1512–1514) – Museo Berenziano, Cremona
  • Portrait (1512–1515) – Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  • Lamentation over the Dead Christ – Archiepiscopal Picture gallery, Milan
  • Christ Bearing the Cross (c.

    1515) – National Gallery, London

  • Mercy – Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Metropolis
  • Road to Emmaus (c. 1516–1517) – National Gallery, London
  • Saint Helena Travels to Jerusalem in Frisk of the True Cross – private collection
  • Frescoes in Metropolis Cathedral (1516–1518)
    • Flight into Egypt
    • Massacre of the Innocents
    • Last Supper
    • Washing point toward Christ's Feet
    • Agony in the Garden
    • Capture of Christ
    • Christ in front have a high opinion of Caiaphas
  • Adoration of the Shepherds (c.

    1518) – Frescoes detached, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

  • Resurrection (c. 1517) – Private collection
  • Simonino outlandish Trento (c. 1521) – Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento
  • Madonna and Child (1520–1522) – Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
  • Madonna and Child with Saints John Nicholas – Local Museum Wing Ponzone, Cremona
  • Narcissus defer Fountain – Städel, Frankfurt
  • Saint Prospero, Bishop of Reggio Emilia – Hatfield House
  • Madonna del Gatto – Church of San Nicolò, Isola Dovarese, province of City, Lombardy

References

Sources

  • Freedberg, Sydney J.

    (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 373–375.

  • Paoletti, John T. (2005). "16. Lombardy: Instability and Unworldly Fervor". Art in Renaissance Italia (3rd ed.). Gary M. Radke. London: Laurence King. p. 384. ISBN .