Pomponio Amalteo (1505 – 9 March 1588) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

of the Venetian school.

Biography

Pomponio Amalteo was born at

Motta di Livenza Motta di Livenza (or di Ligenda/ Ligondo·la/ Livanda·la, later Ligondza, then Livenza) is a town in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy. Twin towns Motta di Livenza is twinned with: * L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers, France * Cres, Croatia * Para ...

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in 1505. He was a pupil and son-in-law of

Il Pordenone Pordenone, Il Pordenone in Italian, is the byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (c. 1484 – 14 January 1539), an Italian Mannerist painter, loosely of the Venetian school. Vasari, his main biographer, wrongly identifies him as Giovann ...

, whose style he closely imitated; he inherited Pordenone's studio in

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, where he led a long career.''Encyclopædia Britannica'' 1911 As Pordenone became increasingly active in Venice in the 1530s, Pomponio Amalteo was allowed to emerge as an independent master. He also became an inheritor of part of his Friulian approach, kind of an arrangement, cemented by his marriage to Pordenone’s daughter in 1534. His works consist chiefly of frescoes and altarpieces and many of which (for instance those in the church of Santa Maria de' Battisti and the altarpiece of ''Saint Sebastian'' (1533) at the duomo of

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) have degraded greatly over time. Five pictures representing subjects of Roman history painted by Amalteo adorn the ''Hall of the Notaries'' at

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. He also frescoed a series of ''judges'' for a loggia in the court of justice in Ceneda. His shading is weaker; colors, brighter; and proportions of figures, less elegant, than those of Pordenone, of which he was likely the most accomplished of his pupils. His brother Girolamo Amalteo is supposed to have assisted him in his labors. His daughter Quintilia Amalteo had the reputation of an excellent portraitist; she married the painter Giuseppe Moretto. Girolamo, besides the works in which he aided his brother, executed small pictures, painted in fresco, and produced an altarpiece for the church of San Vito. Other pupils were Sebastiano Seccante (1534-1581) and Giovanni Antonio Agostini.Contributo secondo-quarto ed ultimo, alla storia dell'arte nel Friuli
By Vincenzo Joppi, page 39. Members of the Amalteo family from

Oderzo Oderzo ( la, Opitergium; vec, Oderso) is a ''comune'' with a population of 20,003 in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy. It lies in the heart of the Venetian plain, about to the northeast of Venice. Oderzo is crossed by the Montican ...

were writers. He died at

in 1588.

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* * Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Amalteo, Pomponio 1505 births 1588 deaths People from Motta di Livenza People from the Province of Pordenone 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Venice Renaissance painters Fresco painters