Girolamo di Benvenuto
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Girolamo di Benvenuto was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance
and son of the painter Benvenuto di Giovanni
.
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
).
High Renaissance
The expression High Renaissance, in art history, is a periodizing convention used to denote the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance...
and son of the painter Benvenuto di Giovanni
Benvenuto di Giovanni
Benvenuto di Giovanni, also known as Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta was an Italian painter and artist.Benvenuto was born in Siena and lived and worked there nearly his entire life. Over the course of 43 years he produced numerous panel paintings, frescoes, and manuscripts. He was married...
.
Life
Learning the basics of art under his father's watchful supervision and trained in the traditional Sienese styleSienese School
The Sienese School of painting flourished in Siena, Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivaled Florence, though it was more conservative, being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace of late Gothic art...
of painting (he was a contemporary of Giacomo Pacchiarotti
Giacomo Pacchiarotti
Giacomo Pacchiarotti, sometimes seen as Pacchiarotto was an Italian painter.-Life and Works:He was born in Siena, and worked there...
, Bernardino Fungai
Bernardino Fungai
Bernardino Fungai was an Italian painter.Fungai is thought to have studied under local painters in his native city of Siena, despite very little being known of his career. His paintings evince an influence from local Sienese painters and also Pietro Perugino. In 1482, he worked on frescoes for the...
and Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio
Bernardino di Betto, called Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname, Pintoricchio , because of his small stature, and he used it to sign some of his works....
), 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
Montalcino
Montalcino is a hilltown and comune in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous for its Brunello di Montalcino wine.The town is located to the west of Pienza, close to the Crete Senesi in Val d'Orcia. It is 42 km from Siena, 110 km from Florence and 150 km from Pisa...
(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
Tondo (art)
A tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture. The word derives from the Italian rotondo, "round." The term is usually not used in English for small round paintings, but only those over about 60 cm in diameter, thus excluding many round portrait...
(intended for a bedroom and now in the Louvre
Louvre
The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
).
Sources
- Diana Norman. Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena. Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena. (1260—1555). (1260–1555). Yale University Press. Yale University Press. 2003. 2003.
- Giulietta Dini. Giulietta Dini. Five Centuries of Sienese Painting (From Duccio to the Birth of the Baroque). Five Centuries of Sienese Painting (From Duccio to the Birth of the Baroque). Thames & Hudson. Thames & Hudson. 1998. 1998.