Girolamo di Benvenuto
Girolamo di Benvenuto (September 1470 - June 1524) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and son of the painter Benvenuto di Giovanni.
Life
Benvenuto was born and died in Siena. Learning the basics of art under his father's watchful supervision and trained in the traditional Sienese style of painting (he was a contemporary of Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Bernardino Fungai and Pinturicchio), he worked on several frescoes and altarpieces undertaken by his father's studio. His first independent work, The Assumption of Mary of 1498 for the city of Montalcino (whose museum still holds it), Girolamo shows several differences to his father's style, with more elongated figures with more pronounced expressions.
His most notable work, signed and dated to 1508, is his Madonna of the Snow, now in the Pinacotheca in Siena. It echoes two female portraits painted by him at about the same time (now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Kistersa collection in Kreytslingen) and has another variant produced in 1515 for the Fontedzhusta church in Siena. Surviving documents and works show he mainly produced religious works, but also created paintings on secular themes for domestic settings and cassoni - the latter include his Judgement of Paris tondo (intended for a bedroom and now in the Louvre).
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- Diana Norman. Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena. (1260–1555). Yale University Press. 2003.
- Giulietta Dini. Five Centuries of Sienese Painting (From Duccio to the Birth of the Baroque). Thames & Hudson. 1998.
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