Marcello Venusti
Marcello Venusti (1512 – 15 October 1579)[1] was an Italian Mannerist painter active in Rome in the mid-16th century.
Native to
His painting of Christ in the Garden is in the
Also attributed to Venusti are a number of altarpieces for Roman churches, such as for the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, for the first chapel on the left, he painted Resurrected Christ appears to Mary Magdalene. He also painted for the Chapel of St James apostle in this church. For the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale, he painted a Birth of Christ for the third chapel. For the church of San Bernardo della Compagnia (demolished in the 18th century), he painted St Bernard triumphing over a Demon. For the church of Santa Caterina dei Funari, he painted a John the Baptist preaching for the main chapel on the right.[2]
Works
- Christ at the Column, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia
- Christ in the Garden, Galleria Doria Pamphilj
- Portrait of Michelangelo (about 1535), oil on canvas (36 x 27 cm), Casa Buonarotti, Florence
- Frescoes of the Chapel of the Rosary, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
- Frescoes at the San Giovanni Battista chapel, Santa Caterina dei Funari, Rome
- The Holy Family, Alnwick Castle
References
- ^ "Biography of VENUSTI, Marcello in the Web Gallery of Art".
- ^ Il microcosmo della pittura; by Francesco Scannelli; Cesena (1657); page 186.
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. p. 485 Penguin Books Ltd.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 652.
External links
- The engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Marcello Venusti (see index)