Giovanni Battista Benvenuti, known as l'Ortolano
(Ferrara, ca. 1480/1485 - 1525)
SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA
oil on panel, 53x42 cm
SANT'ANTONIO DA PADOVA
olio su tavola, cm 53x42
Literature
- G. Morelli, Kunstkritische Studien. Die Galerie Borghese und Doria Pamphili in Rom, Leipzig, 1890, p. 207 (and italian edition 1897);
- A. Venturi, L’arte emiliana (al Burlington Fine Arts Club di Londra), in “Archivio Storico dell’Arte”, VII, 1894, pp. 96-97;
- A. Venturi, R. H. Benson, Burlington Fine Arts Club. Exhibition of pictures, drawings & photographs of Works of the School of Ferrara-Bologna, 1440-1540, also pf medals members of the houses of Este and Bentivoglio, London 1894, pp. XXVII, XXVIII
- G. Gruyer, L’Art ferrarais à l’époque des princes d’Este, Paris 1897, II, pp. 323, 333, 335, 337
- C. De Mandach, Saint Antoine de Padoue et l’art italien, Paris 1899, p. 122
- B. Berenson, North Italian painters of the Renaissance, New York-London 1907, p. 276
- C. Gamba, La raccolta Visconti Venosta, in “Dedalo”, I, 1920, pp. 528-532
- B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 404
- W. R. Valentiner, in “Thieme Becker Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Kunstler, ad vocem, vol. XXVI, Leipzig, 1932, p. 67;
- B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (trans. edited by E. Cecchi), Milan 1936, p. 347;
- G. Frabetti, L'Ortolano, Milan 1966, p. 64 e fig. 54.