Sunday, May 26, 2019

Andrea Meldolla, called Andrea Schiavone (ca. 1510-1563)

Andrea Schiavone
St Mark miraculously appearing in the Church of San Marco, Venice
before 1563
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Andrea Schiavone
Apollo flaying Marsyas (fragment)
before 1563
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Andrea Schiavone
Three Female Figures in front of an Altar
before 1563
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Andrea Schiavone
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
before 1563
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

"Andrea Meldolla was a native of the Venetian colonial city of Zara (now Zadar) in Dalmatia (modern Croatia), but he moved to Venice itself in the second half of the 1530s.  Because of his national roots Andrea was nicknamed Schiavone, which in Italian means 'Slavonian'.  He was a proficient draughtsman and etcher as well as a painter, and was heavily influenced by the work of Parmigianino and some of the central Italian Mannerist painters.  Many of Schiavone's paintings are small-scale mythological pictures, although he was capable of painting large altarpieces and decorative schemes.  His work is characterised by a vigorous, painterly use of the brush or pen."

– from curator's notes at the National Gallery of Scotland

Andrea Schiavone
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine with Saints and a Doge
ca. 1550-53
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Andrea Schiavone
Death of Hannibal
before 1563
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Andrea Schiavone
Expulsion from Paradise
ca. 1540-60
oil on canvas
Museo Civico di Montepulciano

Andrea Schiavone
Execution of St John the Baptist
ca. 1540-63
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museums, West Midlands

Andrea Schiavone after Titian
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1559
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

attributed to Andrea Schiavone
Arcas Hunting
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

attributed to Andrea Schiavone
Jupiter seducing Callisto
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Andrea Schiavone
Diana and Callisto
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
Musée de Picardie, Amiens

Andrea Schiavone
Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

follower of Andrea Schiavone
Infant Bacchus with the Nymphs of Nyssa
ca. 1550-1600
oil on panel
National Trust, Belton House, Lincolnshire