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| Ambrogio Bergognone Madonna and Child with two Angels ca. 1485 tempera on panel Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone St Ambrose enthroned, with Saints ca. 1488-94 oil on panel Certosa di Pavia |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Madonna and Child with St Catherine of Alexandria and Blessed Stefano Maconi ca. 1490 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Madonna and Child enthroned with St Catherine of Alexandria and St Catherine of Siena ca. 1490 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
"The painter, son of a "Magister Stephanus" and brother of Bernardino, also a painter, was probably born in Fossano, near Cuneo in the Piedmont region. The origin of his nickname "Bergognone," with which he is documented for the first time in 1495, is uncertain. . . . Bergognone was living in Milan at least from 1472, when he is cited in a document drawn up in the house of the painter Melchiorre Lampugnano. In 1481, Ambrogio is mentioned as a member of the Scuola di San Luca, the corporation of Milanese painters. Nothing is known of his training, which may have taken place with Melchiorre Lampugnano, an artist by whom no works are known today but who was at least a generation older. . . . Beginning in 1488 Bergognone was called to work in the charterhouse of Pavia, where he was given a long series of commissions for polyptychs and frescoes, lasting until 1494. . . . In 1495 he returned to Milan, where he spent the rest of his life. He was very active, along with his brother Bernardino and an efficient workshop, in numerous churches in the city and beyond its walls."
– from the artist's biography in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Christ risen from the Tomb ca. 1490 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Madonna and Child with St Christopher and St George ca. 1492-94 oil on panel National Museum, Poznań, Poland |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Presentation in the Temple ca. 1494 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Coronation of the Virgin ca. 1500-1510 fresco Basilica di San Simpliciano, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Madonna and Child ca. 1500-1510 oil on panel Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone St Jerome (detail of polyptych) 1507 oil on panel Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Bergamo |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone St Jerome ca. 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1510 oil on panel Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Madonna and Child ca. 1512-15 tempera on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Ambrogio Bergognone Assumption of the Virgin before 1523 oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |