Monday, August 8, 2022

Bonifazio Veronese (Bonifazio de' Pitati) - 1487-1553

Bonifazio Veronese
Portrait of a Young Nobleman
ca. 1530
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Bonifazio Veronese
Angelica and Medoro
(scene from Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto)
before 1553
oil on panel
private collection

Bonifazio Veronese
Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena
before 1553
oil on panel
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Bonifazio Veronese
Lot and his Daughters
ca. 1545
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk Virginia

Bonifazio Veronese
The Finding of Moses
ca. 1540-45
oil on panel
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Bonifazio Veronese
The Finding of Moses (detail)
ca. 1540-45
oil on panel
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Bonifazio Veronese
The Finding of Moses (detail)
ca. 1540-45
oil on panel
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Bonifazio Veronese
The Finding of Moses (detail)
ca. 1540-45
oil on panel
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Bonifazio Veronese
St Michael Archangel vanquishing Lucifer
ca. 1530
oil on canvas
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Bonifazio Veronese
Holy Family with Saints
ca. 1535
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Bonifazio Veronese
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
before 1553
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw

Bonifazio Veronese
Sacra Conversazione
before 1553
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Egidio Martini, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Bonifazio Veronese
Virgin and Child with St Catherine,
St John the Baptist, St Anthony Abbot and St Dorothy

ca. 1528
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Bonifazio Veronese
The Rich Man and Lazarus
ca. 1540
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Bonifazio Veronese
Portrait of a Nobleman
ca. 1530
oil on canvas
private collection

"Bonifazio was by more than a decade the older painter, born c. 1487 in Verona; yet we have no information of him until 1528, when a document reveals his presence in Venice.  But he must have been in the city for some years before, and the best assumption we can make about his long anonymity is that it was spent in the shop of another painter.  From the appearance that the earliest certain works by Bonifazio (of c. 1528 or shortly after) present, the shop must have been Palma's.  . . .  It may be that Bonifazio actually inherited Palma's shop and patronage, and in this practical sense, as well as by long training, was disposed to extend his style.  . . .  It is not only a matter of accommodation to conservative patrons' taste but his own disposition that prizes narrative and descriptive efficiency to that point where Bonifazio may often make effects of style second to effects of legibility and imitative truth."

– S.J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (1970)