Girolamo Amalteo

Girolamo Amalteo was a 16th century Italian artist, the brother of Pomponio Amalteo.

Life

The brother of Pomponio, Girolamo Amalteo was instructed by him and gave proofs of a noble genius, which is manifested in his works of design in small pictures, which appeared like miniatures, in several fables executed in fresco, and in altar-pieces which he painted in the church of San Vito. Ridolfi commends him highly for his spirited manner, and Renaldis says that, in his opinion, if he had lived longer he would have proved no way inferior to the great Pordenone. He flourished in the 16th century, and died when still young. Graziano, in his poem of Orlando, styles him " Girolamo Amalteo de vita santa."^[1]

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This article incorporates text from the article "AMALTEO, Girolamo" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.