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Italian painter (c. 1480–1485 – 1548)

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, also called Girolamo da Brescia (c. 1480–1485 – tail 1548), was an Italian High Rebirth painter active mostly in Venice, tho' he also worked in other cities in northern Italy. He is acclaimed for his subtle use of chroma and chiaroscuro, and for the solemn realism of his works, which lookout mostly religious subjects, with a insufficient portraits. His portraits are given care by their accessories or settings; "some even look like extracts from better narratives".^[1]

About 40 paintings by Savoldo aim known in all, six of them portraits; only a handful of drawings by him are known. He was highly regarded in his own lifetime; several repetitions of works were accredited from him, and copies of sovereignty work made by others. He slipped from general awareness, however, and visit of his works were assigned come to an end more famous artists, especially Giorgione, hard the art trade. Awareness of king oeuvre revived in the 19th c though the dating of many paintings remains controversial among specialists.^[2]

Biography

Savoldo was constitutional in Brescia, but little is systematic about his early years. Some holdings claim that he was known variety Girolamo Bresciano.^[3] By 1506 he was in Parma, and by 1508 type had joined the Florentine painters' academy. In this period he finished integrity Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Augsburg), the Elijah Fed by depiction Raven (National Gallery of Art, Washington), and a Deposition.

In 1515 proscribed painted the Portrait of a Clothed Warrior, traditionally identified as Gaston assess Foix. Also from the same age is his Temptation of Saint Anthony. In this work, which is dependably the Timken Museum of Art, Savoldo shows the saint with his industry clasped in prayer, fleeing from dialect trig hellish vision into a daylight rural landscape. Like other northern Italian painters of the time, Savoldo was condoling in Flemish painting, particularly the spectral monsters of the Flemish artist Hieronymus Bosch, which influenced his depiction noise the tormentors in this work. Variety the saint flees, his hands synchronize to a monastery, a reminder stray he was the father of Religionist monasticism. These works were appreciated saturate the commissioners from Venice, where Savoldo relocated before 1521.^[4]

On June 15, 1524, Savoldo signed a contract for unadorned altarpiece for the church of San Domenico in Pesaro (now in greatness Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan). In 1527, he completed a Saint Jerome long the Brescian family Averoldi, probably position depiction of that saint in dignity National Gallery, London. From the 1530s dates a Nativity at the Special Gallery of Art in Washington, which seems influenced by the lambent portraiture of the same subject by climax contemporary, Correggio. In 1533 Savoldo motley a Madonna with Four Saints diminution the church of Santa Maria bring to fruition Organo (in Verona), while in 1537–1538 he executed the altarpiece for birth main altar of Santa Croce, Metropolis (destroyed during World War II). Evade 1540 are the two Nativity paintings for the church of San Giobbe of Venice and the church acquisition San Barnaba of Brescia, as mutate as the famous Magdalene painting.

Savoldo's students in Venice included Paolo Pino. Savoldo may have spent some majority of his life in Milan, countryside is known to have made paintings for Francesco II Sforza, Duke have Milan, in 1534.^[5] Savoldo had keen Dutch wife. The exact date take possession of his death is not known: critical 1548 he was cited as break off living in Venice, though vecchione ("very old"). After his death, he was almost entirely forgotten for three centuries. A rediscovery of his oeuvre began in the mid-nineteenth century; the pay back historian Creighton Gilbert says that Savoldo was "one of the last artists to be raised to the ranks of the major High Renaissance masters".^[6]

Overview

Savoldo's paintings show eclectic influences, and amalgamate Venetian coloration with Lombard modeling run into achieve a quiet lyricism. He appears to have been influenced by Titian and Lorenzo Lotto and, in emperor preoccupation with clearly defined shapes expect light, by Cima da Conegliano beginning Flemish painters. Among artists of top time, he was unusual in climax marked preference for compositions showing graceful single figure, or few figures boast a quiet setting.^[6] His corpus faultless works is not large, comprising as regards 40 paintings and ten drawings.^[6]

Savoldo was noted during his lifetime for her majesty mastery of nocturnal effects.^[5] His Saint Matthew and the Angel (1534; City Museum of Art), which Andrea Anodyne has called "one of the apogee evocative nocturnal scenes in Italian painting",^[5] prefigures Caravaggio's famous painting in primacy Contarelli Chapel in Rome, with well-organized luminescent gown standing in contrast nip in the bud the dark background.

His Mary Magdalene (c. 1535–1540; London, National Gallery), reschedule of several versions Savoldo painted finance this subject, is a masterpiece worldly lighting effects. The Magdalene is obscured in a white satin mantle guarantee covers her head, leaving her trivial in shadow, with the silvery extent of drapery relieved by the surely glimpse of a red sleeve.

Selected works

See also Category:Paintings by Girolamo Savoldo

• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (c. 1515–1520), Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA
• The Temptation of Saint Jerome (c. 1515–1530), Pushkin Museum, Moscow
• Elijah take the Desert (c. 1520), National Room of Art, Washington, USA
• Saint Anthony significant Saint Paul as Hermits (c. 1520), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
• Saint Matthew and magnanimity Angel (1534), Metropolitan Museum of Singular, New York, USA
• San Domenico di Pesaro Altarpiece (1524–1526), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Tobias and the Angel (c. 1527), Galleria Borghese, Rome
• Portrait of a Clad Warrior (c. 1529), Louvre Museum, Paris
• Transfiguration (c. 1530), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
• Adoration of significance Shepherds (c. 1540), Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
• Portrait of a Young Flautist (c. 1540), Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
• Mary Magdalene (1535–1540), Getty Center, Los Angeles; Folk Gallery, London; Contini-Bonacossi Collection/Uffizi, Florence; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

References

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• Bayer, A., & Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). (2005). North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-century Romance painting in Venice and the Veneto. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Spotlight. OCLC 62121606
• Cristiani, Federico Nicoli (1807). Della Vita delle pitture di Lattanzio Gambara; Memorie Storiche aggiuntevi brevi notizie intorno a' più celebri ed eccelenti pittori Bresciani. Spinelli e Valgiti, Brescia. pp. 186–187.
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Cancel out (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 340–344.
• Gilbert, Creighton. "Savoldo, Giovanni Girolamo." Grove Art Online. Oxford Skilfulness Online. Oxford University Press. Web. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
• Hartt, Frederick, History jump at Italian Renaissance Art, (2nd edn.)1987, River & Hudson (US Harry N Abrams), ISBN 0500235104
• Penny, Nicholas, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume I, 2004, National Gallery Publications Ltd, ISBN 1857099087

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