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Altobello Melone (c. 1490–1491 – before 3 May 1543) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.




Biography


Melone was born in Cremona. His work merges Lombard and Mannerist styles. In Cremona, he encountered the elder Girolamo Romanino. He was commissioned in December 1516 to fresco the Cathedral of Cremona, work which continued until 1518. His contract required that his frescoes be more beautiful than those of his predecessor, Boccaccio Boccaccino. He worked alongside Giovanni Francesco Bembo and Paolo da Drizzona. Francesco Prata was influenced by Melone.
Melone contributed frescoes to the Cathedral of Cremona in 1516. The Lamentation in the Pinacoteca di Brera comes in all probability from the church of Saint Lorenzo in Brescia and is dated 1512. The stylistic convergence with Romanino is particularly obvious, such that the contemporary Venetian Marcantonio Michiel describes the Cremonese painter as a "disciple of Armanin".
Moreover, in his masterpiece frescoes, Melone aims to be an interpreter of the anticlassicism and "expressionist" language emerging in the work of Romanino. The seven scenes realized by Altobello evince a new forcefulness – the Massacre of the Innocents is emblematic of this quality, which is manifest in the gestures and in the grotesque transformation of the faces.




Selected works


Madonna and Child with Saint John (c. 1510) – Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Adoration of the Christ Child (c. 1510) – Kunsthaus, Zürich (warehouse)
Madonna with Child (c. 1511) – Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1512) – Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Transfiguration – Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Portrait of Gentleman (Cesare Borgia) – Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Embrace of Lovers – Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Embrace of Lovers – Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Adoration of the Christ Child (1512–1514) – Museo Berenziano, Cremona
Portrait (1512–1515) – Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Lamentation over the Dead Christ – Archiepiscopal Picture gallery, Milan
Christ Bearing the Cross (c. 1515) – National Gallery, London
Mercy – Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
Road to Emmaus (c. 1516–1517) – National Gallery, London
Saint Helena Travels to Jerusalem in Search of the True Cross – private collection
Frescoes in Cremona Cathedral (1516–1518)
Flight into Egypt
Massacre of the Innocents
Last Supper
Washing of Christ's Feet
Agony in the Garden
Capture of Christ
Christ in front of Caiaphas
Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1518) – Frescoes detached, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Resurrection (c. 1517) – Private collection
Simonino from Trento (c. 1521) – Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento
Madonna and Child (1520–1522) – Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Madonna and Child with Saints John Nicholas – Civic Museum Wing Ponzone, Cremona
Narcissus at Fountain – Städel, Frankfurt
Saint Prospero, Bishop of Reggio Emilia – Hatfield House
Madonna del Gatto – Church of San Nicolò, Isola Dovarese, province of Cremona, Lombardy




References






Sources



Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 373–375.
Paoletti, John T. (2005). "16. Lombardy: Instability and Religious Fervor". Art in Renaissance Italy (3rd ed.). Gary M. Radke. London: Laurence King. p. 384. ISBN 1-85669-439-9.

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