Nicolò Rondinelli St John the Evangelist appearing to Galla Placidia ca. 1490-1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
The painting depicted on the altar above appears to be a near-copy of the independent devotional image Rondinelli painted directly below.
Nicolò Rondinelli Madonna and Child ca. 1500 tempera and oil on panel Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Nicolò Rondinelli Madonna and Child enthroned with Four Saints before 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
Nicolò Rondinelli Madonna and Child enthroned with Four Saints (detail of musical angels) before 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
Nicolò Rondinelli St Sebastian before 1510 oil on panel Cattedrale di Santa Croce, Forlì |
"There also flourished in Romagna at this time the excellent painter Rondinello, of whom we made some slight mention in the Life of Giovanni Bellini, whose disciple he was, assisting him much in his works. This Rondinello, after leaving Giovanni Bellini, laboured at his art to such purpose, that, being very diligent, he executed many works worthy of praise. . . . So much was he commended for all these works, that during his lifetime he was held in great account, not only in Ravenna but throughout all Romagna."
– from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)
Nicolò Rondinelli Altarpiece Fragment Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by the Archangel Michael and St Peter ca. 1500 oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Nicolò Rondinelli Altarpiece Fragment Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by the Archangel Michael and St Peter ca. 1500 oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Nicolò Rondinelli Altarpiece Fragment Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by the Archangel Michael and St Peter ca. 1500 oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Nicolò Rondinelli Altarpiece Fragment Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by St Sebastian and St Albert before 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
Nicolò Rondinelli Altarpiece Fragment Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by St Sebastian and St Albert before 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
Nicolò Rondinelli Altarpiece Fragment Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by St Sebastian and St Albert before 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
The two groups of paintings above (in Baltimore and in Ravenna) both originally resembled the two ruinous paintings below, but were chopped up in the nineteenth century to conceal defects and render them more commercially desirable and less aesthetically disturbing.
Nicolò Rondinelli Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by St Andrew and St Lawrence before 1510 oil on panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
Nicolò Rondinelli Madonna and Child enthroned flanked by St Jerome and St Catherine of Alexandria before 1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Comunale di Ravenna |
Nicolò Rondinelli Madonna and Child before 1510 tempera and oil on panel Pinacoteca Civica, Forlì |