Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua

Madonna and Child, 1495-1499, Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, also known as il Liberale Bevilacqua (active, active by 1481–at least 1512) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy in a late-medieval or early Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Foppa of Milan.^[1]

Biography

Apparently born in Milan to a carpenter named Pietro. By 1481, he was noted under the patronage of Duke Francesco Sforza. He signed in 1485 a fresco depicting Saints Roch, Sebastian, and Christopher and perhaps also completed a Madonna and Saints with Donors for the parish church of Landriano.^[2]

Works

• Madonna and Child, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan,^[3]
• Madonna Piccinella, Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of Milan
• Madonna with Child, St Peter Martyr, King David, and Donor, Pinacoteca Brera, Milan^[4]
• Castello Visconteo (Pavia)
• Metropolitan Museum of New York,^[5]
• National Museum of Art of Luxembourg
• Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, St Bernard of Clairveaux and a donor, Accademia Carrara in Bergamo,^[6]
• Waddesdon Manor in England^[7]

References

1. Short biography in the Musee National d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg.
2. La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, by Electa Lombardia, Milan, multiple editors, (1993); page 443.
3. Bevilacqua Room of Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan.
4. La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, page 443.
5. God the Father at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
6. Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and Donor, featured in exhibit titled 14 & 16th century Italian paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
7. Four Saints in Waddesdon Manor at Waddesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.