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Andrea Previtali (c. 1480 –1528) was an Italian painter of the
Previtali was a pupil of the painter
Andrea Previtali (c. 1480 –1528) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance
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period, active mainly in Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...
. He was also called Andrea Cordelliaghi.
Biography
Previtali was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father ...
. In Bergamo, he painted a ''John the Baptist preaching with other saints'' (1515) for the church of Santo Spirito, a ''San Benedetto and other saints'' for Bergamo Cathedral
Bergamo Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Bergamo, ''Cattedrale di Sant'Alessandro'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Bergamo, Italy, dedicated to Saint Alexander of Bergamo, patron saint of the city. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bergamo.
History
Fr ...
, and a ''Deposition from the Cross'' for Sant'Andrea Sant'Andrea is the Italian language, Italian name for List of saints named Andrew, St. Andrew, most commonly Andrew the Apostle. It may refer to:
Communes in Italy
*Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea, Basilicata
*Cazzano Sant'Andrea, Lombardy
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. Other works of his are in the Accademia Carrara
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. and the National Gallery, London
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(''Salvator Mundi
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'' and '' The Virgin and Child with a Shoot of Olive'', both left to the gallery in 1910).
Previtali gained notice in 1937 in the United Kingdom for "not being Giorgione". Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television ...
, then Director of the National Gallery, bought two small panels of his from a dealer in Vienna, each with two rustic scenes. He paid £14,000 for them, a high price at the time, despite opposition from his curators. The authoritative ascription of them to Previtali was published in 1938 in ''The Burlington Magazine
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'' by G. M. Richter, based on research by Philip Pouncey, a curator.
Previtali's masterpiece is an ''Annunciation'' (illustrated here), which stands over the high altar of the little-known church of Santa Maria del Meschio in Vittorio Veneto
Vittorio Veneto is a city and ''comune'' situated in the Province of Treviso, in the region of Veneto, Italy, in the northeast of Italy, between the Piave and the Livenza rivers, borders with the following municipalities:
Alpago ( BL), Belluno ...
.
Works
* Baglioni Madonna * The Virgin and Child with a Shoot of Olive * Madonna and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Martha of Bethany * Madonna and Child with Saint Sebastian and Saint Vincent Ferrer * Lament over the Dead ChristReferences
Other sources
* *The Giorgione controversy. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/scenes-from-tebaldeos-eclogues *James Stourton: ''Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilization' ''(London: William Collins, 2016). 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Bergamo Italian Renaissance painters 1528 deaths Year of birth unknown Year of birth uncertain {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub