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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child enthroned with St Sebastian, St John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen, St Roch and members of the Confraternity of San Giovanni Evangelista 1487-88 tempera and oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child enthroned with St James the Greater and St Jerome 1489 tempera on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Vicenza |
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| Cima da Conegliano Coronation of the Virgin ca. 1490 oil on canvas Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice |
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| Cima da Conegliano Pietà with the Virgin and Saints ca. 1490 oil on panel Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child enthroned with Angels and Saints 1492 oil on panel Duomo di Conegliano |
"Giovanni Battista Cima, who signed his work "joannis baptiste coneglanensis" (with occasional variations in spelling), was born into a family of cimatori di panni (craftsmen who trimmed and finished wool cloth) in the Venetian terraferma town of Conegliano. He is first mentioned in the tax records of Conegliano in 1473, presumably upon attainment of the majority age of fourteen, suggesting that he was born around 1459. He probably moved to Venice in the early or mid-1480s: a document of 1486 records payments to a "Magister Zambatista pictor," resident in Venice, for a standard for a scuola in Conegliano, while a document of 1492 definitely refers to Cima as resident in Venice. He worked and resided there until his death, although he continued to maintain close ties with Conegliano."
"Cima's earliest dated work, of 1489, is an altarpiece for the church of S. Bartolomeo in Vicenza [above, now in Vicenza's Pinacoteca Civica]. At least one major altarpiece, for the little town of Olera, near Bergamo, probably predates it. In the 1490s Cima began to receive major commissions for altarpieces in Venice itself. With Giovanni Bellini occupied with the decoration of the doge's palace, Cima became the leading painter of altarpieces in the Veneto. About thirty of his altarpieces survive, outnumbering those by any of his Venetian contemporaries."
– from the artist's biography in the Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child with St Jerome and St John the Baptist ca. 1492-95 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Cima da Conegliano Baptism of Christ ca. 1493-94 oil on panel Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bragora, Venice |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child with Donor 1493 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Cima da Conegliano St John the Baptist with St Peter, St Mark, St Jerome and St Paul ca. 1495 oil on panel Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto, Venice |
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| Cima da Conegliano Annunciation 1495 tempera and oil on panel, transferred to canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child ca. 1495 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child enthroned with St Peter, St Romualdus, St Benedict and St Paul ca. 1495 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Cima da Conegliano Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St John the Baptist, St Lucy and Two Angels ca. 1496-98 tempera and oil on panel Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna of the Orange Tree with St Jerome and St Louis of Toulouse ca. 1496-98 tempera and oil on panel Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Cima da Conegliano Madonna and Child in a Landscape ca. 1496-99 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |