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.
Also recorded as Ambrogio Bevilacqua · Il Liberale Bevilacqua · Il Liberale
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
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- Born
- 1401 · Lombardy.
- Died
- 1600
- Occupation
- painter
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Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua (1441 – 1541) fu pittore.
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Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua nacque nel 1441. Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua morì nel 1541.
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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
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1401
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua born at Lombardy.
1600
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua died.
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- 1.Short biography in the Musee National d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg .
- 2.La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, by Electa Lombardia, Milan, multiple editors, (1993); page 443.
- 3.Bevilacqua Room of Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan.
- 4.La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, page 443.
- 5.God the Father at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
- 6.Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and Donor, featured in exhibit titled 14 & 16th century Italian paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
- 7.Four Saints in Waddesdon Manor at Waddesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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