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Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered part of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da Messina, in the emphasis he gives to landscape backgrounds and the tranquil atmosphere of his works. Once formed his style did not change greatly. He mostly painted religious subjects, often on a small scale for homes rather than churches, but also a few, mostly small, mythological ones.

Christ among the doctors, 1504, National Museum in Warsaw
Christ among the doctors, 1504, National Museum in Warsaw
Sleeping Endymion
Sleeping Endymion
Madonna and Child, a popular composition found in many good versions
Madonna and Child, a popular composition found in many good versions

He often repeated popular subjects in different versions with slight variations, including his Madonnas and Saint Jerome in a Landscape. His paintings of the Madonna and Child include several variations of a composition that have a standing infant Jesus, which in turn are repeated several times.


Biography


Nicodemus with Christ's body, the Apostle John on the right and Mary to left.
Nicodemus with Christ's body, the Apostle John on the right and Mary to left.

Giovanni Battista Cima was born at Conegliano, then part of the terrafirma of the Republic of Venice but now part of the province of Treviso, in 1459 or 1460. His father, who died in 1484, was a cloth-shearer (cimator), hence the family surname.[1]

In 1488 the young painter was at work at Vicenza; in 1492 he established himself at Venice, but by the summer of 1516 he had returned to his native place. Cima married twice, his first wife, Corona, bore him two sons, the older of whom took Holy orders at Padua. By Joanna, his second wife, he had six children, three being daughters.[1]

His oldest painting inscribed with a date is the Madonna of the Arbour (1489; now in Museum of Vicenza). This picture is done in distemper and savours so much of the style of Bartolomeo Montagna, who lived at Vicenza from 1480, as to make it highly probable that Cima was his pupil. Even in this early production Cima gave evidence of the serious calm, and almost passionless spirit that so eminently characterized him. Later he fell under the influence of Giovanni Bellini and became one of his ablest successors, forming a happy, if not indispensable link between this master and Titian.[1]

According to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia:

At first his figures were somewhat crude, but they gradually lost their harshness and gained in grace while still preserving the dignity. In the background of his facile, harmonious compositions the mountains of his country are invested with new importance. Cima was one of the first Italians to assign a place for landscape depiction, and to formulate the laws of atmosphere and of the distribution of light and shade. His Baptism of Christ in the church of San Giovanni in Bragora, in Venice (1492), gives striking evidence of this. The colouring is rich and right with a certain silvery tone peculiar to Cima, but which in his later works merges into a delicate gold. His conceptions are usually calm and undramatic, and he has painted scarcely any scenes (having depicted religious ones almost exclusively) that are not suggestive of "sante conversazioni". His Incredulity of St. Thomas (National Gallery, London) and his beautiful Nativity (Venice, Santa Maria dei Carmini, 1509) are hardly aught else. But most of his paintings represent Madonnas enthroned among the elect, and in these subjects he observes a gently animated symmetry. The groupings of these sainted figures, even though they may not have a definitely pious character, and the impression of unspeakable peace.[1]

Among his pupils were his son, Carlo da Conegliano, and Vittore Belliniano. It is unclear if Francesco Beccaruzzi, who was born in Conegliano in 1492, received direct training from Cima.[1]


Selected works


Satyrs, 1505-1510
Satyrs, 1505-1510
David and Jonathan, 1505-1510
David and Jonathan, 1505-1510
The Presentation of the Virgin, 1496-1497
The Presentation of the Virgin, 1496-1497
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, 1510s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, 1510s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, 1513, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, 1513, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

References


  1. Catholic Encyclopedia 1913
  2. Illustration.



На других языках

[de] Giovanni Battista Cima

Giovanni Battista Cima (* um 1460 in Conegliano; † zwischen 1517 u. 1518), genannt Cima da Conegliano, war ein italienischer Maler.
- [en] Cima da Conegliano

[es] Cima da Conegliano

Giovanni Battista Cima, llamado Cima da Conegliano (Conegliano, 1459 - 1517) fue un destacado pintor italiano de la primera etapa del Renacimiento veneciano.

[fr] Cima da Conegliano

Cima da Conegliano, né Giovanni Battista Cima (Conegliano 1459 - Conegliano 1517), est un peintre vénitien de la Renaissance de l'école vénitienne.

[it] Cima da Conegliano

Cima da Conegliano, soprannome di Giovanni Battista Cima[1] (Conegliano, 1459/1460 – Conegliano, 1517/1518), è stato un pittore italiano cittadino della Repubblica di Venezia, tra maggiori esponenti della scuola veneta del XV secolo.

[ru] Чима да Конельяно

Чи́ма да Конелья́но (Чима из Конельяно, итал. Cima da Conegliano, собственно, Джованни Батиста Чима, итал. Giovanni Batista Cima; род. ок. 1459 (1459) в Конельяно; умер там же в 1517 или 1518 году) — итальянский художник венецианской школы живописи эпохи Ренессанса.


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