Saturday, September 21, 2019

Bartolomeo Montagna (1450-1523) - Vicenza

Bartolomeo Montagna
Madonna and Child enthroned
with St John the Baptist, St Bartholomew, St Augustine, St Sebastian

ca. 1485
tempera and oil on panel, transferred to canvas
Pinacoteca di Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza

Bartolomeo Montagna
Madonna and Child
ca. 1490
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bartolomeo Montagna
Noli me tangere
with St John the Baptist and St Jerome

ca. 1492
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Bartolomeo Montagna
Ecce Homo
ca. 1500-1507
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

"Vicenza in the first half of the century cannot claim the distinction of a painter even of the stature of Campagnola.  The first two decades were still dominated by the gloomily impressive figure of the caposculoa of the late Quattrocento, Bartolomeo Montagna, who worked until 1523."

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

"After these men came Bartolomeo Montagna of Vicenza, a passing good painter, who lived ever in Venice and made many pictures there."

– from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)

workshop of Bartolomeo Montagna
Madonna and Child with a Saint
ca. 1483
oil on panel
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Bartolomeo Montagna
St Justina of Padua
(fragment of altarpiece)
ca. 1490-1500
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bartolomeo Montagna
St Jerome in the Desert
ca. 1500-1502
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Bartolomeo Montagna
Landscape with Castles
ca. 1490-1510
oil on panel
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Bartolomeo Montagna
St Bernardino and a Holy Bishop
ca. 1492
tempera and oil on panel
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Bartolomeo Montagna
Madonna and Child
ca. 1504-1506
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

attributed to Bartolomeo Montagna
St Jerome in the Desert
before 1523
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Bartolomeo Montagna
St Peter blessing, with Donor
ca. 1505
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Bartolomeo Montagna
Study for Christ Enthroned
ca. 1520
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Bartolomeo Montagna
Nude Man standing beside a high pedestal
before 1523
drawing
Morgan Library, New York