Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua Explained

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Works

• Madonna and Child, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan,^[3]
• Madonna Piccinella, Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of Milan
• Madonna with Child, St Peter Martyr, King David, and Donor, Pinacoteca Brera, Milan^[4]
• Castello Visconteo (Pavia)
• Metropolitan Museum of New York,^[5]
• 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,^[6]
• Waddesdon Manor in England^[7]

Notes and References

1. http://www.mnha.public.lu/collections/beaux-arts/art_ancien/bevilacqua/index.html Short biography in the Musee National d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=O9ZGAQAAIAAJ La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento
3. http://museobagattivalsecchi.org/en/stanze/10/bevilacqua_room.html Bevilacqua Room
4. La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, page 443.
5. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/438415 God the Father
6. http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/RENAISSANCE/Default.cfm?IRN=202384&BioArtistIRN=37023&MnuID=3&GalID=3&ViewID=2 Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and Donor
7. https://artuk.org/search/search/search/keyword:bevilacqua-giovanni-ambrogio-active Four Saints