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BARTOLOMEO MONTAGNA
Moreover, a clause in a will made on June 30, 1483,
by a member of the noble Trissino family, Gasparo,
the son of Giovanni, informs us that the testator
had ordered from Montagna an altar-piece for the
church'of the hospital of Vicenza; when the will was
drafted it was not yet known whether the picture had
already been transferred to the place it was destined
for.1 What has become of it is unknown. Finally,
on March 9, 1487, Montagna received payment for
paintings, executed for the municipality of Bassano,
which have since vanished.2
We must proceed as far as September of the same
year, 1487, to find a date recorded by a contemporary
source about an extant painting by our master. The
picture in question is a small panel, intended for
family devotion, representing the Virgin enthroned
between Saints Sebastian and Roch, and is now in
the Galleria Lochis of Bergamo ; on its back is a
contemporary inscription, informing us of its execution
at the aforesaid date.
The Bergamo panel is a work of great charm ;
there is much juvenile freshness in it. Quite simple
in composition, it shows us the holy persons within
a marble enclosure ; behind, over the low barrier
opens a view into a pleasant landscape. The colouring
is for the most part bright, bathed in clear cool
1 [“ Document!] N. 2.—1483. 30 Giugno. Test.0 di Gasparo qm.
Giovanni Trissino . . . item lasso et ordino in caso non habbia fatto
portar la palla del Lazzaretto, la quale e appresso del Montagna, e
resta haver solo cinque ducati, sia jatta portar per li heredi.”
[Vicenza, Archivio Notarile, Atti Nic. Ferreti] (Magrini, loc. cit.
P- 43-)
2 “ Adi 9 dicto [March 1487] per contadi a ser Matio de Cafeto e
ser Alesandro Campesan per dar a mastro Bartolomeo Montagna depen tor
. . . lire 6 soldi 4.” Bassano. Archivio Comunale. Oldest book of
expenditure, p. 145. (G. d. B. [Gerola], “ Per il nostro S. Francesco ”
in Bollettino del Museo Civico di Bassano, ii. 4, n. 6, and Magrini, loc.
cit. p. 44.)
BARTOLOMEO MONTAGNA
Moreover, a clause in a will made on June 30, 1483,
by a member of the noble Trissino family, Gasparo,
the son of Giovanni, informs us that the testator
had ordered from Montagna an altar-piece for the
church'of the hospital of Vicenza; when the will was
drafted it was not yet known whether the picture had
already been transferred to the place it was destined
for.1 What has become of it is unknown. Finally,
on March 9, 1487, Montagna received payment for
paintings, executed for the municipality of Bassano,
which have since vanished.2
We must proceed as far as September of the same
year, 1487, to find a date recorded by a contemporary
source about an extant painting by our master. The
picture in question is a small panel, intended for
family devotion, representing the Virgin enthroned
between Saints Sebastian and Roch, and is now in
the Galleria Lochis of Bergamo ; on its back is a
contemporary inscription, informing us of its execution
at the aforesaid date.
The Bergamo panel is a work of great charm ;
there is much juvenile freshness in it. Quite simple
in composition, it shows us the holy persons within
a marble enclosure ; behind, over the low barrier
opens a view into a pleasant landscape. The colouring
is for the most part bright, bathed in clear cool
1 [“ Document!] N. 2.—1483. 30 Giugno. Test.0 di Gasparo qm.
Giovanni Trissino . . . item lasso et ordino in caso non habbia fatto
portar la palla del Lazzaretto, la quale e appresso del Montagna, e
resta haver solo cinque ducati, sia jatta portar per li heredi.”
[Vicenza, Archivio Notarile, Atti Nic. Ferreti] (Magrini, loc. cit.
P- 43-)
2 “ Adi 9 dicto [March 1487] per contadi a ser Matio de Cafeto e
ser Alesandro Campesan per dar a mastro Bartolomeo Montagna depen tor
. . . lire 6 soldi 4.” Bassano. Archivio Comunale. Oldest book of
expenditure, p. 145. (G. d. B. [Gerola], “ Per il nostro S. Francesco ”
in Bollettino del Museo Civico di Bassano, ii. 4, n. 6, and Magrini, loc.
cit. p. 44.)