Artist
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
1401–1600
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua was an Early Renaissance painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, most of them oil paintings. Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua was born in Lombardy.
Overview
Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, also known as il Liberale Bevilacqua (active by 1481 to at least 1512) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy in a late-medieval or early Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Foppa of Milan.
Biography
Bevilacqua was apparently born in Milan to a carpenter named Pietro. By 1481, he was noted under the patronage of Duke Francesco Sforza. He signed in 1485 a fresco depicting Saints Roch, Sebastian, and Christopher and perhaps also completed a Madonna and Saints with Donors for the parish church of Landriano.
Works
Madonna and Child, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan, Madonna Piccinella, Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of Milan Madonna with Child, St Peter Martyr, King David, and Donor, Pinacoteca Brera, Milan Castello Visconteo (Pavia) Metropolitan Museum of New York, National Museum of Art of Luxembourg Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, St Bernard of Clairveaux and a donor, Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Waddesdon Manor in England
Works by Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua
Collections represented
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