Giovanni Buonconsiglio

Giovanni Buonconsiglio was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and his native Vicenza. He was also called "il Marescalco". He painted in the style of Giovanni Bellini, but afterwards became a pupil of Antonello da Messina. Active during 1497-1514. 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 (1511) for the Montagnana Cathedral; a "St. Catharine" (1513) in Louvre; "Portrait of a Woman"; "Madonna with six Saints" Accademia. Fragments exist of a work in oil for SS. Cosmo e Damiano alla Giudecca representing "SS. Benedict, Tecla, and Cosmo" (1407); a "Virgin and Saints mourning over the dead body of Christ"; and "Virgin and Child, with Saints" Tempera (painted for San Bartolomeo in 1502).

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