Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Giovanni Pietro Rizzi, called Giampietrino (active 1508-1549)

Giampietrino after Leonardo da Vinci
Last Supper
ca. 1520
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Giampietrino
Madonna of the Cherries
ca. 1508-1510
oil on panel
private collection

Giampietrino
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1510-30
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Giampietrino
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1525-30
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

"None of these artists was so literally imitative of Leonardo as painters less rooted by age in the Quattrocento could become.  Marco d'Oggiono took over Leonardo's types, his chiaroscuro, and in many cases his inventions of motifs more obviously than the older artists, but this apparatus merely cloaks the archaism of the form beneath, and hardly modifies the painter's pedestrian care for realism.  Giampietrino was a more exact exploiter of Leonardo's repertory, not quite so harsh as Marco.  What both do to their model is instructive of the stubbornness in them of traits that are native to their school.  Leonardo's modes of drawing and chiaroscuro are denatured to become descriptive tools, affirming a glossy verity, essentially inert, and his complex and precarious emotion slides off – as so easily it might in imitators' hands – into illustration."

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

Giampietrino
Christ carrying the Cross
ca. 1530-35
oil on panel
Museo Diocesano, Milan

Giampietrino
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1524-26
oil on panel
Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Giampietrino
Salvator Mundi
before 1549
tempera on panel
Pushkin Museum, Moscow

attributed to Giampietrino
Leda and her Children
ca. 1525-35
oil on panel
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Kassel

Giampietrino
Penitent Magdalen
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Giampietrino
Lucretia
before 1549
oil on panel
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Giampietrino
St John the Baptist
before 1549
oil on panel
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico

Giampietrino
Virgin and Child
ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Giampietrino
Virgin and Child
ca. 1525
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Giampietrino
Diana the Huntress
before 1549
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York