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LATE PERIOD 193
Buonconsiglio is recorded, in the evening of his life,
to have been charged with positions of trust by his
brother painters. Thus we find him, on December
12, 1531, as gastaldo, i.e., president of the Scuola dei
pittori at Venice and as belonging to the commission
which had been appointed for the sake of procuring a
house for the said Scuola, for which purpose Vincenzo
Catena—who died in September of the above year—
had bequeathed some money. The colleagues of our
painter on this commission included, according to
custom, humble practisers of the craft, and none of
them is at present known by any extant work. They
were the banner-painters Giovanni Maria and Paolo
Rhenio, the cassone- and shield-painter Giovanni
d’Andrea, and Bartolomeo di Luoso, of whose par-
ticular branch of painting we are ignorant.1 When
the commission assembled on May 14, 1535, Buoncon-
siglio was still mentioned as a member of it, though
absent; in the office of gastaldo he had been suc-
ceeded by yet another painter of whom no works
John, in violet leather coat and grey mantle, is blessing with his right
hand and holds a cross in his left. St. Peter, in greenish blue tunic and
brown mantle, holds the keys in his right hand and a book in his left.
St. Paul, in greenish blue tunic and red mantle, holds a large sword in
his right hand and a book in his left. St. Francis is pointing out of the
picture with his right hand, commending the congregation to the Divine
Persons, while uncovering the wound in his side with his left hand.
St. Bernard of Siena is holding a desk with the monogram of Christ.
The unknown saint, in green tunic and purple mantle, is reading. On a
cartellino, fastened to the pedestal of the throne, an illegible signature.
On wood. Circular top. C/. for the earlier history of this picture
Gerola, “ Gli oggetti sacri di Candia salvati a Venezia ” in Atti dell’I.R.
Accademia di Scienze, Letters ed Arti degli Agiati in Rovereto, ser. iii.,
vol. ix. fasc. III-IV, where the affinities to Buonconsiglio also were
first noticed. Ph. Alinari.
1 There are two documents to this effect in the Archivio di Stato
at Venice : (1) Giudici dell’Esaminador. Preces. Reg. 62 ce. 70 t°.
(Ludwig, loc. cit. p. 92 sqi); (2) Giudici dell’Esaminador. Vendizion,
Alienazion e Donazion. Reg°. 23 ca. 90 t°. (Ibid. p. 93).
Buonconsiglio is recorded, in the evening of his life,
to have been charged with positions of trust by his
brother painters. Thus we find him, on December
12, 1531, as gastaldo, i.e., president of the Scuola dei
pittori at Venice and as belonging to the commission
which had been appointed for the sake of procuring a
house for the said Scuola, for which purpose Vincenzo
Catena—who died in September of the above year—
had bequeathed some money. The colleagues of our
painter on this commission included, according to
custom, humble practisers of the craft, and none of
them is at present known by any extant work. They
were the banner-painters Giovanni Maria and Paolo
Rhenio, the cassone- and shield-painter Giovanni
d’Andrea, and Bartolomeo di Luoso, of whose par-
ticular branch of painting we are ignorant.1 When
the commission assembled on May 14, 1535, Buoncon-
siglio was still mentioned as a member of it, though
absent; in the office of gastaldo he had been suc-
ceeded by yet another painter of whom no works
John, in violet leather coat and grey mantle, is blessing with his right
hand and holds a cross in his left. St. Peter, in greenish blue tunic and
brown mantle, holds the keys in his right hand and a book in his left.
St. Paul, in greenish blue tunic and red mantle, holds a large sword in
his right hand and a book in his left. St. Francis is pointing out of the
picture with his right hand, commending the congregation to the Divine
Persons, while uncovering the wound in his side with his left hand.
St. Bernard of Siena is holding a desk with the monogram of Christ.
The unknown saint, in green tunic and purple mantle, is reading. On a
cartellino, fastened to the pedestal of the throne, an illegible signature.
On wood. Circular top. C/. for the earlier history of this picture
Gerola, “ Gli oggetti sacri di Candia salvati a Venezia ” in Atti dell’I.R.
Accademia di Scienze, Letters ed Arti degli Agiati in Rovereto, ser. iii.,
vol. ix. fasc. III-IV, where the affinities to Buonconsiglio also were
first noticed. Ph. Alinari.
1 There are two documents to this effect in the Archivio di Stato
at Venice : (1) Giudici dell’Esaminador. Preces. Reg. 62 ce. 70 t°.
(Ludwig, loc. cit. p. 92 sqi); (2) Giudici dell’Esaminador. Vendizion,
Alienazion e Donazion. Reg°. 23 ca. 90 t°. (Ibid. p. 93).