Altobello Melone
Paintings
Christ carrying the Cross
The Road to Emmaus
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Altobello Melone (c. 1490-1491 – before 3 May 1543)[1][2] was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
Biography
Melone was born in Cremona. His work merges Lombard and Mannerist styles. In Cremona, he encountered the elder Girolamo Romanino. He was commissioned in December of 1516 to fresco the Cathedral of Cremona, work which continued till 1518. His contract required that his frescoes be more beautiful than his predecessor, Boccaccio Boccaccino. He worked alongside Giovanni Francesco Bembo and Paolo da Drizzona.[3]
Melone contributed frescoes to the Cathedral of Cremona in 1516. The Lamentation in the Brera[4] comes in all probability from the church of Saint Lorenzo in Brescia and dated 1512. The stylistic convergence with Romanino is particularly obvious, such that the contemporary Venetian Marcantonio Michiel describes the Cremonese painter as a disciple of Armanin.
Moreover, in his masterpiece frescoes, Melone aims to be an interpreter of the anticlassicismo and “expressionist” language emerging in the work of Romanino. The seven scenes realized by Altobello evince a new forcefulness - Massacre of the Innocents is emblematic and manifest in the gestures and in the grotesque transformation of the faces.
Selected works
Madonna with Child and Saint John (c. 1510) - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Adoration of Child (c. 1510) - Kunsthaus, Zürich (warehouse)
Madonna with Child (c. 1511) - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Lamentation over dead Christ (1512) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Transfiguration -Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Portrait of Gentleman (Cesare Borgia) - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Embrace of Lovers -Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Embrace of Lovers -Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Adoration of Child (1512–1514) - Museo Berenziano, Cremona
Portrait (1512–1515) -Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Lamentation over dead Christ -Archiepiscopal Picture gallery, Milan
Christ Bearing the Cross (c. 1515) - National Gallery, London
Mercy - Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
Road to Emmaus (c. 1516-1517) - National Gallery, London
Sant'Elena Travels to Jerusalem in Search of Sacred Cross - private collection
Frescoes in Cremona Cathedral (1516–1518)
Flight to Egypt
Massacre of the Innocents
Last Supper
Washing of Jesus' Feet
Agony in the Garden
Capture of Christ
Jesus in front of Caiphas
Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1518) - Frescoes detached, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Resurrection (c. 1517) - Private collection
Simonino from Trento (c. 1521) -Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento
Madonna with Child (1520–1522) - Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Madonna with Child, Saint John and San Nicholas - Civic Museum Wing Ponzone, Cremona
References
Died before 1543: Paoletti 2005:384; "Melone at Artcyclopedia". Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
"Melone at University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum". (Others date it "before 1547".)
Dizzionario, Volume 1, by Stefano Ticozzi.Page 429
[1][dead link]
Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art, ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 373–375.
Paoletti, John T. (2005). "16. Lombardy: Instability and Religious Fervor". Art in Renaissance Italy (3rd ed.). Gary M. Radke. London: Laurence King. p. 384. ISBN 1-85669-439-9.
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