Madonna and Child CIMA DA CONEGLIANO c. 1500

This image appeared in our September, 2005 gallery.

The artist was Venetian: his earliest dated work, of 1489, is an altarpiece for the church of S. Bartolomeo in Vicenza. At least one major altarpiece, for the little town of Olera, near Bergamo, probably predates it. In the 1490s he started to acquire major commissions for altarpieces in Venice itself. With Giovanni Bellini occupied with the decoration of the doge's palace, Cima da Conegliano became the leading painter of altarpieces in the Veneto. About thirty of his altarpieces survive, outnumbering those by any of his Venetian contemporaries. In addition to altarpieces, mostly of the sacra conversazione type, he specialized in half-length Madonnas for private devotion of which numerous workshop replicas are known. Almost all of his mature works include idyllic landscape backgrounds that recall the countryside around Conegliano as is the case with above Madonna.




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