the monks of Monte Oliveto, Giovanni Pedoni,[1] who has produced numerous works in Cremona and Brescia, was likewise a native of the former city; among his productions, those now in the house of the Signor Eliseo Raimondo are particularly to be mentioned, as being very beautiful and praiseworthy.
In Brescia likewise there have been and still are persons who have proved themselves most excellent in works or design; among others Jeronimo Romanino,[2] who has produced a vast number of paintings in that city. The picture of the High Altar in the Church of San Francesco, which is a tolerably creditable work, is by the hand of this master, as are likewise the small folding doors which close in the altarpiece; these are painted in tempera both within and without; another picture in the same church, painted in oil and very beautifully done, is also by Jeronimo Romanino; in this work the artist has given singularly close imitations of natural objects.[3]
But a much more able artist than Romanino was Alessandro Moretto,[4] who painted a fresco beneath the arch of the Porta
- ↑ Cicognara, Storia della Scultura, tomo ii. p. 186, calls Giovanni Pedoni and his son Cristofano, natives of Lugano, and speaks very highly of their abilities.
- ↑ An excellent painter and follower of the manner of Titian. —Bottari. See also Averoldi, Scelte Pitture di Brescia; and Ridolfi, Maraviglie dell'Arte.
- ↑ In the Church of Santa Maria di Calchera, in Brescia, there is a picture representing the Communion of Sant’ Apollonius, by this master, with the Resurrection of Lazarus, a Marriage of the Virgin, and the Last Supper of Our Lord, in the Church of San Giovanni.
- ↑ Alessandro Bonvicino, called Moretto, was bom in Brescia towards the close of the fifteenth century. His first master was Fioravante Ferranola, also a Brescian, but his principal acquirements were obtained from Titian. There are some fine frescoes by Bonvicino in the Villa Martinengo, at Novarino, near Brescia, with many other works. There is also a Santa Maddalena by this master in the Venetian Academy of the Fine Arts, a Madonna in the Berlin Gallery, the Doctors of the Church in the Stadtische Museum at Frankfort, a Santa Justina in the Belvedere at Vienna, with a Coronation of the Virgin and other works in the Brera at Milan, ilis last production, bearing the date 1554, is in the Frizzoni
Marius and Martha, but the author of the same was Antonio Amadeo of Pavia, and it was executed in the year 1482, as we learn from an inscription on the tomb itself.
