Giovanni Buonconsiglio


Giovanni Buonconsiglio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and his native Vicenza. Alternate names: Bonconsigli, Giovanni; Il Marescalco; Marescalco Buonconsiglio; Il Marescalco.

Influences

Buonconsiglio was probably apprenticed in Vicenza to Bartolomeo Montagna by 1484.
He painted in the style of Giovanni Bellini, but afterwards became a pupil of Antonello da Messina.

Works

In Vicenza, he painted a Pieta for the church of San Bartolomeo, a Virgin and child with saints for Oratorio de Turchini. He was living as late as 1530 at Venice, for the churches of which city he painted numerous altar-pieces, many of which have unfortunately perished. Among his works are: Virgin and Child for the Montagnana Cathedral; a St. Catharine in Louvre; Portrait of a Woman; Madonna with six Saints. Fragments exist of a work in oil for SS. Cosmo e Damiano alla Giudecca representing SS. Benedict, Tecla, and Cosmo ; a Virgin and Saints mourning over the dead body of Christ; and Virgin and Child, with Saints Tempera.

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