Palma Vecchio The Holy Family with Mary Magdalene and the Infant Saint John
ID: 40321
Palma Vecchio
1480-1528
Italian
Palma Vecchio Gallery
His birthdate is calculated on Vasari testimony (1550) that he died aged 48. By March 1510 he was in Venice, where he spent his working life. The stylistic evidence of his earliest works suggests that he was apprenticed to fellow Bergamasque artist Andrea Previtali, who had studied under Giovanni Bellini. A signed Virgin Reading (1508-10; Berlin, Gemeldegal.), which may be Palma Vecchio earliest surviving painting, is strongly reminiscent of his teacher. Previtali returned to Bergamo in 1511, and the main corpus of Palma work can be dated from this time. Palma Vecchio oeuvre reflects the change from an early to a high Renaissance conception of the human figure in secular and religious art. He specialized in certain themes that became established in the repertory of genres of the Venetian school in the generation after him. The principal of these were the wide-format SACRA CONVERSAZIONE Related Paintings of Palma Vecchio :. | Young Faunus Playing the Syrinx | Diana and Callisto | The Holy Family with Mary Magdalene and the Infant Saint John | Paola Priuli and Francesco Querini | Portrait of a Young bride as Flora | Related Artists: Frans van Stampart Belgium (1675 -1750 ) - Painter Lucia Anguissola Italian Mannerist Painter, 1540-1565 George Copeland Ault American, 1891-1948