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ALESSANDRO MORETTO.
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the monks of Monte Oliveto, Giovanni Pedoni,* who has
produced numerous works in Cremona and Brescia, was
likewise a native of the former city; among his productions,
those now in the house of the Signor Eliseo Raimondo are
particularly to be mentioned, as being very beautiful and
praiseworthy.
In Brescia likewise there have been and still are persons
who have proved themselves most excellent in works oi
design; among others Jeronimo Romanino,f who has produced
a vast number of paintings in that city. The picture of the
High Altar in the Church of San Francesco, which is a
tolerably creditable work, is by the hand of this master, as
are likewise the small folding doors which close in the altar-
piece; these are painted in tempera both within and without;
another picture in the same church, painted in oil and very
beautifully done, is also by Jeronimo Romanino; in this work
the artist has given singularly close imitations of natural
objects, t
But a much more able artist than Romanino was Alessandro
Moretto,§ who painted a fresco beneath the arch of the Porta
Marius and Martha, but the author of the same was Antonio Amadeo
of Pavia, and it was executed in the year 1482, as we learn from an in-
scription on the tomb itself.
* Cicognara, Storla della Scultura, tomo ii. p. 186, calls Giovanni
Pedoni and his son Cristofano, natives of Lugano, and speaks very highly of
their abilities.
+ An excellent painter and follower of the manner of Titian.—Bottari.
See also Averoldi, Seelie Pitture di Brescia; and Ridolfi, Maraviglie
dell’ Arte.
| In the Church of Santa Maria di Calchera, in Brescia, there is a
picture representing the Communion of Sant’ Apollonius, by this master,
with the Resurrection of Lazarus, a Marriage of the Virgin, and the Last
Supper of Our Lord, in the Church of San Giovanni.
§ Alessandro Bonvicino, called Moretto, was bom in Brescia towards
the close of the fifteenth century. Bis first master was Fioravante
Ferranola, also a Brescian, but his principal acquirements were obtained
from Titian. There are some fine frescoes by Bonvicino in the Villa Mar-
t.inengo, at Novarino, near Brescia, with many other works. There is also
a Santa Maddalena by this master in the Venetian Academy of the Fine
Arts, a Madonna in the Berlin Gallery, the Doctors of the Church in the
Stadtische Museum at Frankfort, a Santa Justina in the Belvedere at
Vienna, with a Coronation of the Virgin and other works in the Brera at
Milan. His last production, bearing the date 1554, is in the Frizzoni
533
the monks of Monte Oliveto, Giovanni Pedoni,* who has
produced numerous works in Cremona and Brescia, was
likewise a native of the former city; among his productions,
those now in the house of the Signor Eliseo Raimondo are
particularly to be mentioned, as being very beautiful and
praiseworthy.
In Brescia likewise there have been and still are persons
who have proved themselves most excellent in works oi
design; among others Jeronimo Romanino,f who has produced
a vast number of paintings in that city. The picture of the
High Altar in the Church of San Francesco, which is a
tolerably creditable work, is by the hand of this master, as
are likewise the small folding doors which close in the altar-
piece; these are painted in tempera both within and without;
another picture in the same church, painted in oil and very
beautifully done, is also by Jeronimo Romanino; in this work
the artist has given singularly close imitations of natural
objects, t
But a much more able artist than Romanino was Alessandro
Moretto,§ who painted a fresco beneath the arch of the Porta
Marius and Martha, but the author of the same was Antonio Amadeo
of Pavia, and it was executed in the year 1482, as we learn from an in-
scription on the tomb itself.
* Cicognara, Storla della Scultura, tomo ii. p. 186, calls Giovanni
Pedoni and his son Cristofano, natives of Lugano, and speaks very highly of
their abilities.
+ An excellent painter and follower of the manner of Titian.—Bottari.
See also Averoldi, Seelie Pitture di Brescia; and Ridolfi, Maraviglie
dell’ Arte.
| In the Church of Santa Maria di Calchera, in Brescia, there is a
picture representing the Communion of Sant’ Apollonius, by this master,
with the Resurrection of Lazarus, a Marriage of the Virgin, and the Last
Supper of Our Lord, in the Church of San Giovanni.
§ Alessandro Bonvicino, called Moretto, was bom in Brescia towards
the close of the fifteenth century. Bis first master was Fioravante
Ferranola, also a Brescian, but his principal acquirements were obtained
from Titian. There are some fine frescoes by Bonvicino in the Villa Mar-
t.inengo, at Novarino, near Brescia, with many other works. There is also
a Santa Maddalena by this master in the Venetian Academy of the Fine
Arts, a Madonna in the Berlin Gallery, the Doctors of the Church in the
Stadtische Museum at Frankfort, a Santa Justina in the Belvedere at
Vienna, with a Coronation of the Virgin and other works in the Brera at
Milan. His last production, bearing the date 1554, is in the Frizzoni