Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Girolamo Romanino (ca. 1485-ca. 1566) - Brescia and Venice

Girolamo Romanino
Altarpiece of the Nativity
(from Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro, Brescia)
ca. 1524
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Girolamo Romanino
Nativity Scene
Altarpiece of the Nativity
(from Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro, Brescia)
ca. 1524
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Girolamo Romanino
St Guadiosus of Naples
Altarpiece of the Nativity
(from Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro, Brescia)
ca. 1524
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Girolamo Romanino
St Alexander of Bergamo
Altarpiece of the Nativity
(from Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro, Brescia)
ca. 1524
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Girolamo Romanino
St Filippo Benizzi
Altarpiece of the Nativity
(from Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro, Brescia)
ca. 1524
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Girolamo Romanino
St Jerome
Altarpiece of the Nativity
(from Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro, Brescia)
ca. 1524
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Girolamo Romanino
Christ carrying the Cross
ca. 1542
oil on canvas
private collection

Girolamo Romanino
Flagellation
(two-sided processional banner)
ca. 1540
distemper and oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Girolamo Romanino
Madonna of Mercy
(two-sided processional banner)
ca. 1540
distemper and oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Girolamo Romanino
Pietà
1510
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

"The history of Cinquecento style in Brescia begins with Girolamo Romanino towards the end of the first decade.  In 1510, a dated Pietà (Venice, Accademia) is in a style that equivocates between the Quattrocento and modernity, and more, important, between the Lombard mode that then dominated in Brescia and elements of style acquired from Venice.  . . .  What is in the Pietà requires that its artist should have known Venice at first hand, and not just the painting of Bellini but Giorgione's and perhaps the youthful Titian's.  Painted in Brescia (for the church of S. Lorenzo), the Pietà was formed by a sequence of experiences that took Romanino from his native place to Venice and back again.  . . .  Romanino lived through the sixth decade, and in his latest years, probably in the main through the action of his son-in-law and collaborator, Lattanzio Gambara, he became susceptible to the influence of the Romanizing styles that by then were firmly established in Cremona and neighbouring Emilia."

 – S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)

Girolamo Romanino
St Justina of Padua enthroned, with Saints
1514
oil on panel
Museo Eremitani, Padua

Girolamo Romanino
Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple
1529
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Girolamo Romanino
Madonna and Child with St James the Greater and St Jerome
ca. 1512
oil on panel
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Girolamo Romanino
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1515-17
oil on panel
Royal Collection, Great Britain