Giovanni Busi

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Giovanni Busi known as Il Cariani was a Renaissance painter (c. 1490-1547).

Probably born in Bergamo, he is known to have lived in Venice starting 1509, and may have trained with either Bellini or Giorgione. Though he worked often in Bergamo, he died in Venice in 1547. Was strongly influenced by Palma il Vecchio and Lorenzo Lotto, but had a provincial love of scenery as scene in the Sacra conversazione with a youthful donor piece.

While working in Bergamo (1517-23), he likely overlapped with Lorenzo Lotto, who worked there from 1513-1525.

[edit] Partial anthology of works

• Comversation between young woman and old man (1516, Hermitage)[1]
• Resurrection of Christ with two Donors (1520) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan [2]
• Pala di San Gottardo (1523) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Madonna Cucitrice (1525-28) - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
• Finding the True Cross (1530) - Bergamo, Accademia)
• Lovers in a Landscape (1530) - Palazzo Venezia
• The Concert (1518-20) - National Gallery, Washington DC[3]
• Sacra Conversazione with a Youthful Donor (1640) - National Gallery, London[4]
• Saint Agata (1516) - National Gallery, Ottawa[5]
• Portrait (1517) - National Gallery, London) [6]

[edit] References

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p 338-340.