Portrait of Gentleman (Cesare Borgia) by Altobello Melone. Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.

Altobello Melone (c. 1508 – before 1547) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. cesare borgia from www. ... cesare borgia from www. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ...

He was born in Cremona. His style merges Lombard with Mannerist styles. In Cremona, he encountered the elder Girolamo Romanino. He was commissioned in December of 1516 to fresco the Cathedral of Cremona, work which continued till 1518. His contract required that his frescoes be more beautiful than his predecessor, Boccaccio Boccaccino. He worked alongside Giovanni Francesco Bembo. Cremona is a city in Northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po river in the middle of the Pianura padana (Po valley). ... In Parmigianinos Madonna with the Long Neck (1534-40), Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, affected poses, and unclear perspective. ... Girolamo Romani (Romanino) (c. ... External view of the Duomo of Cremona. ...

He contributed frescoes for Cathedral of Cremona in 1516. The Lamentation in the Pinacoteca of Brera [1], comes in all probability from the church of Saint Lorenzo of Brescia and dated 1512. The stylistic convergence with Romanino is particularly obvious, such that the contemporary Venetian Marcantonio Michiel describes the Cremonese painter as a disciple of Armanin. External view of the Duomo of Cremona. ... For the Italian administrative area, see Province of Brescia. ...

In his masterpiece frescoes, Altobello aims to be an interpreter of the anticlassicismo and “expressionist” language emerging Romanino. The seven scenes realized by Altobello evince a new forcefulness - Massacre of the Innocents is emblematic and manifest in the gestures and in the grotesque transformation of the faces.

Selected works

• Madonna with Child and Saint John (c. 1510) - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
• Adoration of Child (c. 1510) - Kunsthaus, Zürich (warehouse)
• Madonna with Child (c. 1511) - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
• Lamentation over dead Christ (1512) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Trasfiguration -Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
• Portrait of Gentleman (Cesare Borgia) - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
• Embrace of Lovers -Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
• Embrace of Lovers -Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
• Adoration of Child (1512-1514) - Museo Berenziano, Cremona
• Portrait (1512-1515) -Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Lamentation over dead Christ -Archiepiscopal Picture gallery, Milan
• Christ Bearing the Cross (c. 1515) - National Gallery, London
• Mercy - Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
• Road to Emmaus (c. 1516-1517) - National Gallery, London
• Sant'Elena Travels to Jerusalem in Search of Sacred Cross - private collection
• Frescoes in Cremona Cathedral (1516-1518)
  • Flight to Egypt
  • Massacre of the Innocents
  • Last Supper
  • Washing of Jesus' Feet
  • Agony in the Garden
  • Capture of Christ
  • Jesus in front of Caiphas
• Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1518) - Frescoes detached, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Resurrection (c. 1517) - Private collection
• Simonino from Trento (c. 1521) -Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento
• Madonna with Child (1520-1522) - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
• Madonna with Child, Saint John and San Nicholas - Civic Museum Wing Ponzone, Cremona

The front view of the Accademia Carrara The Accademia Carrara (pron. ... The Pinacoteca Brera (Brera Art Gallery) in Milan contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings, an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Accademia di Belli Arte (Academy of Fine Arts or Accademia Brera), which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera. ... The front view of the Accademia Carrara The Accademia Carrara (pron. ... The Gemäldegalerie is one of the worlds leading collections of European art from the 13th to 18th century. ... Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Czech: ) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. ... The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo is a public art collection in Brescia exhibiting mainly paintings by local artists from the 13th through 18th centuries. ... Castello del Buonconsiglio. ...

References

• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). in Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, p 373-375.