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124 BENEDETTO MONTAGNA
with) is a very weak painting in the Chiesa Arcipretale
at Lonigo, inscribed with the date 1541, which, how-
ever, as it would seem, is not altogether trustworthy.
The subject of this picture is the Virgin and Child
enthroned between St. Julitta, with the boy St. Cyr
in her arms, and St. Christopher carrying the Infant
Christ. Also executed in a puffy style, it repeats
motives from the Adoration of the Trinity at
Vicenza.1
In the parish church of Gambugliano (a village in
the mountains, to the north-west of Vicenza) there is
a painting, said to be by Benedetto and representing
the Virgin and Child between two saints, which I
have not seen.2
Missing since the sale in 1859 of the collection of
Lord Northwick of Thirlestaine House, near Chelten-
ham, is a Virgin Enthroned with Saints, “ a gallery
work.” 3
The following are two more pictures, which have
disappeared long ago :
Vicenza. San Biagio. Seventh altar to the left.
The Virgin with the Child in her arms, standing on a
Dragon and surrounded by Cherubs, between Saints Peter
1 Lonigo. Chiesa Arcipretale. In the choir, on the wall behind
the high altar. The Madonna supports with both hands the Child,
who stands on her right knee, imparting the benediction with His right
hand and twining His left round His mother’s neck. St. Julitta looks at
the central group, whilst St. Cyr points at it, turning to the spectator.
St. Christopher gazes upwards, shading his eyes with his right hand and
holding a palm-tree in his left. The persons are in a marble hall. The
signature “ Benedetto Montagna m’a pense 1541” is, according to Crowe
and Cavalcaselle (op. cit. i. 435, n. 2), “ new.” On canvas. Circular top.
3.00 x I.80. Ridolfi (op. cit. i. 142) calls the author of this work
“ Domenico Montagna.”
2 It is on canvas. Elenco dei principali monumenti . . . nella ■pro-
vincia di Vicenza, p. 12.
3 The picture was bought for ^54 12r. by Mr. Nieuwenhuys. Redford,
Art Sales, ii. 241.
with) is a very weak painting in the Chiesa Arcipretale
at Lonigo, inscribed with the date 1541, which, how-
ever, as it would seem, is not altogether trustworthy.
The subject of this picture is the Virgin and Child
enthroned between St. Julitta, with the boy St. Cyr
in her arms, and St. Christopher carrying the Infant
Christ. Also executed in a puffy style, it repeats
motives from the Adoration of the Trinity at
Vicenza.1
In the parish church of Gambugliano (a village in
the mountains, to the north-west of Vicenza) there is
a painting, said to be by Benedetto and representing
the Virgin and Child between two saints, which I
have not seen.2
Missing since the sale in 1859 of the collection of
Lord Northwick of Thirlestaine House, near Chelten-
ham, is a Virgin Enthroned with Saints, “ a gallery
work.” 3
The following are two more pictures, which have
disappeared long ago :
Vicenza. San Biagio. Seventh altar to the left.
The Virgin with the Child in her arms, standing on a
Dragon and surrounded by Cherubs, between Saints Peter
1 Lonigo. Chiesa Arcipretale. In the choir, on the wall behind
the high altar. The Madonna supports with both hands the Child,
who stands on her right knee, imparting the benediction with His right
hand and twining His left round His mother’s neck. St. Julitta looks at
the central group, whilst St. Cyr points at it, turning to the spectator.
St. Christopher gazes upwards, shading his eyes with his right hand and
holding a palm-tree in his left. The persons are in a marble hall. The
signature “ Benedetto Montagna m’a pense 1541” is, according to Crowe
and Cavalcaselle (op. cit. i. 435, n. 2), “ new.” On canvas. Circular top.
3.00 x I.80. Ridolfi (op. cit. i. 142) calls the author of this work
“ Domenico Montagna.”
2 It is on canvas. Elenco dei principali monumenti . . . nella ■pro-
vincia di Vicenza, p. 12.
3 The picture was bought for ^54 12r. by Mr. Nieuwenhuys. Redford,
Art Sales, ii. 241.