Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro (1415-1477) 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 ...

. Bellinzoni was born in

Pesaro Pesaro () is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the Marche, ...

to the painter Giliolo di Giovanni Bellinzoni. He was taught by his father, and was influenced by

Bartolomeo di Tommaso Bartolomeo di Tommaso, also known as Bartolomeo da Foligno (born in Foligno, c. 1400, active by 1425, died 1453–54) was an Italian painter of the Umbro- Sienese school. Life and career He was in Ancona from 1425 to 1442, when he returned to Fo ...

. There is evidence that he worked with his father on a church commission in Gradara (1429), and continued working with him through at least 1437. After his father died, Bellinzoni came into his own right, and was in high demand. He executed frescoes depicting ''Our Lady of Mercy'' and ''Our Lady Enthroned'' in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Saltara. He painted a polyptych found in the collegiate church of Sant'Esuperanzio in Cingoli. He continued working steadily in and around Pesaro until his death in 1477. A biography written about his life won the

Salimbeni Prize The Salimbeni Prize (''Il Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d'Arte'') is awarded by the Fondazione Salimbeni per le Arti Figurative of San Severino Marche to honour excellence in the writing of art history on an Italian subject. The ''Prem ...

in 1991 for excellence in the writing of art history on an Italian subject.

References

* Paride Berardi, ''Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro'', Nuova Alfa Editoriale - Banca Popolare Pesarese, 1988.

External links

Giovanni Antonio da Pesaro
''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 56 (2001) *
Raffaella Zama, Un’aggiunta al catalogo zeriano di Giovanni Antonio Bellinzoni da Pesaro e l’identità svelata di un Santo caro agli Sforza

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1415 births 1477 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Fresco painters People from Pesaro Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub