Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
Illustration — Madonna and Child, 1495–1499, Castello Sforzesco, Milan Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, also known as il Liberale Bevilacqua (active by 1481 to at least 1512) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy in a late-medieval or early Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Foppa of Milan.
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Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua · Own work, Sailko, 26 January 2016, 17:03:37 · CC BY 3.0
- Born
- 1401 · Lombardy.
- Died
- 1600
- Occupation
- painter
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Illustration — Madonna and Child, 1495–1499, Castello Sforzesco, Milan Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, also known as il Liberale Bevilacqua (active by 1481 to at least 1512) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy in a late-medieval or early Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Foppa of Milan.
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Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan. Work by Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Waddesdon Manor, National Museum of Archeology, History and Art and Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
Bevilacqua was apparently born in Milan to a carpenter named Pietro. By 1481, he was noted under the patronage of Duke Francesco Sforza. He signed in 1485 a fresco depicting Saints Roch, Sebastian, and Christopher and perhaps also completed a Madonna and Saints with Donors for the parish church of Landriano.
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• Madonna and Child, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan, • Madonna Piccinella, Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of Milan • Madonna with Child, St Peter Martyr, King David, and Donor, Pinacoteca Brera, Milan • Castello Visconteo (Pavia) • Metropolitan Museum of New York, • National Museum of Art of Luxembourg • Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, St Bernard of Clairveaux and a donor, Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, • Waddesdon Manor in England
Christ on the Road to Calvary (c. 1500) by Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
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1401
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua born at Lombardy.
1600
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua died.
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