Francesco Verla (1470- circa 1521) was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

period, active in Northern Italy.

Biography

He was born in

Villaverla Villaverla is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is west of SP349 and south of A31. Origins From Roman times, the original name of the nearby village that eventually became Villaverla was "Roveredum." The center of that first vi ...

and died in

Rovereto Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. History Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier b ...

. He was a follower of

Bartolomeo Montagna Bartolomeo (or Bartolommeo) Montagna (, , ; 1450?– 11 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter who mainly worked in Vicenza. He also produced works in Venice, Verona, and Padua. He is most famous for his many Madonnas and his works are ...

, and influenced by Mantegna and

Perugino Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil. Ear ...

. He is described by some, however, as emerging from the ''School of Vicenza''. An ''Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph and Francis'' (1520) at the

Pinacoteca di Brera The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of ...

, Milan, is attributed to Verla. A drawing depicting the ''Baptism of Christ'' at the

Morgan Library and Museum The Morgan Library & Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, is a museum and research library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is situated at 225 Madison Avenue, between 36th Street to the south and 37th S ...

in New York is attributed to Verla.Morgan library
drawing of Verla.

Bibliography

* Mauro Lucco (a cura di), ''Mantegna a Mantova 1460-1506'', catalogo della mostra, Skira Milano, 2006.
Francesco Verla, pittore (Villaverla, 1470 cr. - Rovereto, 1521)
by Lionello Puppi, CAT, 1967.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Verla Francesco 1470 births 1521 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters