Antonio Baschenis

He was the first of the Baschenis to move to Trentino, where, in 1461, he received a commission to decorate the right wall of the church of Santo Stefano in Carisolo in fresco. The decorative apparatus includes a Last Supper and in the lower register two Madonnas enthroned with children and figures of saints (from the left we find a saint identifiable, due to the presence of the "vexillum Regis," with Saint Ursula), followed by two panels with couples of saints, Saint Sebastian and San Giuliano, Anthony the Great and Santo Stefano, then Bernardino of Siena, and finally a saint who is not easy to identify. It cannot be excluded that this last figure represents Saint Bridget of Sweden, which arises from the presence of the thin and elongated stick, surmounted by the cross used as an iconographic element. Antonio appears to have already died between 1470 and 1475; consider the homonymy of these artists, which makes it difficult not only to assign the different works but also to recognize that the Scipioni family was the same as the Baschenis. Antonio had three sons: Bartolomeo, Battista, and Giacomo, probably also the authors of some works. In Trentino, Antonio Baschenis worked inside the church of San Vigilio in Pinzolo and in the church of Mione, a hamlet in the municipality of Rumo, where he painted the Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine, signed and dated 1480.

• Illustration — Madonna in trono col Bambino e Santa Orsola(?), Carisolo, chiesa di Santo Stefano • Illustration — San Sebastiano e San Giuliano, Carisolo, chiesa di Santo Stefano • Illustration — Sant'Antonio Abate e San Stefano, • Illustration — San Bernardino da Siena, Carisolo, chiesa di Santo Stefano