Bartolomeo Montagna

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Picture of Bartolomeo Montagna on the Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza
Picture of Bartolomeo Montagna on the Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza

Bartolomeo Montagna (1450? - 1523) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Vicenza and Venice. He putatively was born near Brescia . His initial training was presumably under Domenico Morone in Verona, where he seems to have acquired a late Quattrocento refinement, similar to that of Carpaccio and Mantegna. The figures have a strict organization in space, and the peaceful expressions of classic detachment. Benedetto Montagna, a productive engraver, was his son and pupil and active till past 1540.

Bartolomeo Montagna: Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. Homoborus and a beggar, with St. Francis and the Blessed Bernardo da Feltre, and with Saint Catherine, c. 1515 (Bode-Museum, Berlin)
Bartolomeo Montagna: Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. Homoborus and a beggar, with St. Francis and the Blessed Bernardo da Feltre, and with Saint Catherine, c. 1515 (Bode-Museum, Berlin)

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Born in Orzinuovi to 1450, he worked in Verona, Venice and Vicenza, where he died in 1523. Il Berenson propende a ritenerlo allievo di Domenico Morone o di Benaglio; ma determinante per la sua formazione fu l'esperienza dei Veneziani e di Antonello da Messina. The Berenson she considered to be a student of Domenico Morone or Benaglio, but crucial to its formation was the experience of the Venetians and Antonello da Messina. Fu a Verona a frescare la Cappella di San Biagio negli anni 1504-1507 e del colorismo dei veronesi allietò particolarmente le sue ultime opere. It was in Verona frescare the Chapel of San Biagio in the years 1504-1507 and colorismo of Veronese allietò particularly his latest works. Se dalla scuola veronese e padovana trasse il senso plastico, a contatto di Alvise Vivarini e di Giovanni Bellini apprese il senso della spazialità e da Antonello da Messina il rilevare e illuminare le forme, ma a tutte queste esperienze impresse una rude monumentale caratterizzazione di ascetismo anche per il tono bruciato della preparazione. If the school Verona and Padua drew the sense plastic, contact Alvise Vivarini and Giovanni Bellini learned a sense of spaciousness and Antonello da Messina detect and illuminate the forms, but all these experiences impressed a rude monumental characterization of asceticism also burned to the tone of preparation.