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BARTOLOMEO MONTAGNA
Vicenza. Museo Civico. The Virgin nursing the
Child between Saints Jerome and Francis. A piece
of strong, beautiful colouring, certainly akin to
Montagna ; but the mask-like faces, the awkwardness
of the Child, its peculiar cork-screw ringlets and the
feeble drawing of the Virgin’s right hand, seem clearly
to assign it only to the school of the master.1
Piazzola sul Brenta. Collection of Count Camerini.
St. Sebastian and a Holy Bishop. To judge from a
photograph this cannot be anything but the work of
some mediocre follower of Montagna.2
Rome. Picture Gallery of the Vatican. Pietd.
A composition of four figures : Nicodemus, Joseph
of Arimathea and Mary Magdalen assembled round
the dead Saviour. The latter rests on the edge of
a marble sarcophagus, the noble head with closed eyes
leaning backwards ; Nicodemus, standing behind, is
supporting the body, while on the opposite side of
the picture the weeping Magdalen is rubbing the left
hand of the Master with ointment taken from a vase
with her right hand the Child and holds forth in her left a cherry.
The Child is seated on a book with red cover, lying on a parapet, and
has in His left hand a cherry. Landscape background (to the left an
ar co naturals'). The Virgin half-length. On wood. 25 x 211 (in.)
Formerly in the collection of Count Carlo Castelbarco at Milan. Bought
in 1869 from Signor Giuseppe Baslini of Milan. Ph. Hanfstaengl.
1 Vicenza. Museo Civico. Sala V. No. 5. The Virgin, in purple
tunic, white veil and blue mantle lined with green, is seated in front of
a black hanging. The Child, lying on a green cushion in her lap, holds
in His right hand a bird. St. Jerome, in purple cloak, holds a book;
St. Francis, in grey frock, a cross. Olive-green background. The
Virgin three-quarter length, the saints half-lengths. On canvas.
Ph. Alinari.
2 Piazzola sul Brenta. Collection of Count Camerini. St. Sebastian
stands with his arms behind his back, tied to a column. The bishop
raises his right hand in benediction and grasps his mantle with his left
(much as St. Sigismund in the Brera picture of 1499). Both are within
a marble enclosure. I am indebted to Prof. Andrea Moschetti for
communicating to me a photograph of this picture.
BARTOLOMEO MONTAGNA
Vicenza. Museo Civico. The Virgin nursing the
Child between Saints Jerome and Francis. A piece
of strong, beautiful colouring, certainly akin to
Montagna ; but the mask-like faces, the awkwardness
of the Child, its peculiar cork-screw ringlets and the
feeble drawing of the Virgin’s right hand, seem clearly
to assign it only to the school of the master.1
Piazzola sul Brenta. Collection of Count Camerini.
St. Sebastian and a Holy Bishop. To judge from a
photograph this cannot be anything but the work of
some mediocre follower of Montagna.2
Rome. Picture Gallery of the Vatican. Pietd.
A composition of four figures : Nicodemus, Joseph
of Arimathea and Mary Magdalen assembled round
the dead Saviour. The latter rests on the edge of
a marble sarcophagus, the noble head with closed eyes
leaning backwards ; Nicodemus, standing behind, is
supporting the body, while on the opposite side of
the picture the weeping Magdalen is rubbing the left
hand of the Master with ointment taken from a vase
with her right hand the Child and holds forth in her left a cherry.
The Child is seated on a book with red cover, lying on a parapet, and
has in His left hand a cherry. Landscape background (to the left an
ar co naturals'). The Virgin half-length. On wood. 25 x 211 (in.)
Formerly in the collection of Count Carlo Castelbarco at Milan. Bought
in 1869 from Signor Giuseppe Baslini of Milan. Ph. Hanfstaengl.
1 Vicenza. Museo Civico. Sala V. No. 5. The Virgin, in purple
tunic, white veil and blue mantle lined with green, is seated in front of
a black hanging. The Child, lying on a green cushion in her lap, holds
in His right hand a bird. St. Jerome, in purple cloak, holds a book;
St. Francis, in grey frock, a cross. Olive-green background. The
Virgin three-quarter length, the saints half-lengths. On canvas.
Ph. Alinari.
2 Piazzola sul Brenta. Collection of Count Camerini. St. Sebastian
stands with his arms behind his back, tied to a column. The bishop
raises his right hand in benediction and grasps his mantle with his left
(much as St. Sigismund in the Brera picture of 1499). Both are within
a marble enclosure. I am indebted to Prof. Andrea Moschetti for
communicating to me a photograph of this picture.