Bartolommeo Montagna

Place: Orzinuovi Or Biron

Born: 1450

Death: 1523

Biography:

Bartolomeo Montagna, also known as Bartolomeo Cincani, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Orzinuovi or Biron, Italy around 1450. He is best known for his many Madonnas and his soft figures and depiction of eccentric marble architecture. Montagna is considered to be heavily influenced by Giovanni Bellini, in whose workshop he might have worked around 1470. He mainly worked in Vicenza, but also produced works in Venice, Verona, and Padua. His son, Benedetto Montagna, was a productive engraver and also one of his pupils. Montagna was mentioned in Vasari's Lives as a student of Andrea Mantegna, but this is widely contested by art historians.