Bartolomeo Montagna

Bartolomeo (or Bartolommeo) Montagna (, , ; 1450?– 11 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter who mainly worked in Vicenza. He also produced works in Venice, Verona, and Padua. He is most famous for his many Madonnas and his works are known for their soft figures and depiction of eccentric marble architecture. He is considered to be heavily influenced by Giovanni Bellini, in whose workshop he might have worked around 1470. Benedetto Montagna, a productive engraver, was his son and pupil and active until about 1540. He was mentioned in Vasari's Lives as a student of Andrea Mantegna but this is widely contested by art historians.

Life He was born Bartolomeo Cincani and later changed his name to Bartolomeo Montagna. The first known written record of his existence is from 1459 and lists him as a minor. The first known documentation of him as an adult is in 1480 as a witness of a will. Bartolomeo Montagna died on October 11, 1523. In the second edition of Vasari's Lives, Vasari mentions that Montagna learned to draw from Andrea Mantegna but does not specify if he did this as an actual pupil or if he just privately studied Mantegna's works. Madonna and Child (c. 1485-1523) - Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Madonna and Child; Madonna and Child - Musei Civici, Belluno Virgin, Jesus and Several Saints; Virgin and Child; St Jerome; St Sebastian and St Roch - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Saint Zeno, Saint John the Baptist and a Female Martyr (c. 1495, oil/wood/canvas); The Virgin and Child (c. 1485-1487, tempera/wood);The Virgin and Child (c. 1504-1506, oil/wood/canvas) - National Gallery, London Saint Jerome; Saint Paul - Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan Virgin with the Child and Saints (1498, oil/canvas); Saint Jerome (c. 1500, oil/canvas) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Madonna Adoring the Child (oil/wood); Saint Justina of Padua (c. 1490-1500, fragment oil/wood) - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Saint Jerome in Penitence - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1503, oil/wood); The Incident in the Story of the Vestal Claudia (tempera/wood), The Marriage of Antiochus and Stratonice (c. 1490-1495, tempera/wood), The Virgin and Child (c. 1480-1489, tempera/wood) - Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - University of Oxford, Oxford Ecce Homo (c. 1500, oil/wood); Three Children Playing Musical Instruments - Louvre, Paris Adoration of the Child Jesus - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg

Landscape with Castle (c. 1495-1505, oil/wood) - National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Jesus between Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian; Madonna with Saint Sebastian and Saint Jerome - Venice Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph (c. 1520, tempera/canvas) - Museo Correr, Venice Saint Peter Blessing with a Donor (c. 1505, oil/wood) - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Madonna and Child - Musei Civici, Verona Maria Vergine col Bambino tra le sante Lucia e Maddalena (altar painting) - Vicenza Cathedral, Vicenza Madonna with the Child and Saint John; Madonna and Child; Madonna with Four Saints (oil/wood); Nativity; Madonna with Saint John and Saint Jerome; Christ Bearing the Cross (oil/wood); Madonna; Holy Family; Madonna with the Child and Saint John as a Child; Madonna and Child with Saint Monica and Mary (c. 1482, oil/wood) - Musei Civici, Vicenza Madonna and Child (c. 1490, oil/wood) - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Virgin and Child (tempera/panel) - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA