Cristoforo I Baschenis
Cristoforo I Baschenis (documented from 1465 to 1490) was an Italian painter, belonging to one of the most popular workshops of itinerant painters present in the Bergamo area and in Trentino.
Cristoforo I Baschenis
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- 1465?
- Died
- 1490?
- Occupation
- painter
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• Born — 1465? • Died — 1490?
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Christopher I is the progenitor, in a pictorial sense, of one of the two branches of the Baschenis family. It appears from documentary sources that he was resident in Colla, a hamlet of Santa Brigida, Rome (BG) and that he stayed for some time in Brescia; but - as far as is known - he worked mainly in Trentino. • Illustration — Sant'Antonio Abate, facade fresco, 1474, Pelugo, church of Sant'Antonio Abate. In 1474, he was in Pelugo in Val Rendena where on the facade of the cemetery church dedicated to Sant'Antonio Abate, under the pitch of the roof, he painted a large image of the saint dedicatee. It is his only work of certain attribution, signed and dated (6 October 1474). It is a fresco which testifies to some attention to the novelties Renaissance art which spread in Lombardy in the second half of the Fifteenth century. Regarding this work it has been observed: Luigi Loprete, "The frescoes of the church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Pelugo" in AA.VV., The church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Pelugo, op cit., pag. 48 and 52 On the basis of stylistic affinities, other fresco panels that decorate the façade can be attributed to Cristoforo I: the Madonna with Child, the SS. Trinity, the ' Annunciation, the Procession and San Giorgio.
Sant'Antonio di Mavignola (Pinzolo, Trentino, Italy), old Saint Anthony the Great church - Frescos of the ceiling
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Sant'Antonio di Mavignola (Pinzolo, Trentino, Italy), old Saint Anthony the Great church - Fresco of the altar: Maestà and saints Anthony the Great and Barbara
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- 1.I pittori Baschenis.
- 2.AA.VV., The church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Pelugo, op cit. page 52
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- L. Loprete, The Baschenis in Trentino, in Giornale Italiano d'Europa, September, 1982
- AA.VV., The church of Sant'Antonio Abate in Pelugo, Parish of San Zeno Pelugo, 1994
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