thumb|300px|Christ among the doctors, 1504, [[National Museum in Warsaw]]

thumb|300px|Sleeping [[Endymion (mythology)|Endymion]]

thumb|Madonna and Child, a popular composition found in many good versions

Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (), 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. 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

thumb|[[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.

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. and Saint Roch (1500–1502) <small>- Diptych, Oil on panel, 116.5 x 47&nbsp;cm each, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Strasbourg.</small>

  • St Catherine of Alexandria and Madonna and Child (1500–1502) <small>- Central panel, Oil on panel, Wallace Collection, London.</small>
  • Christ among the Doctors <small>- National Museum in Warsaw, Poland</small>
  • Saints Peter Martyr, Nicholas of Bari, Benedict and an Angel Musician (1504) <small>- Oil on panel, 330 x 216&nbsp;cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.</small>
  • Madonna and Child (c. 1504) <small>- Tempera on wood, 66 x 57&nbsp;cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.</small>
  • Virgin and Child (1504–1507) <small>- Louvre, Paris. </small>
  • Christ Enthroned (before 1505) <small>- Pushkin Museum, Moscow.</small>
  • Virgin and Child (c. 1505) <small>- Oil on wood, National Gallery, London.</small>
  • Theseus Killing the Minotaur () <small>- Oil on panel, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan</small>
  • St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict (c. 1505–1506) <small>- oil on canvas, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan</small>
  • Bacchic Cassone (c. 1505–1510) <small>- oil on wood panel, now split into four pieces</small>
  • Montini Altarpiece (c. 1506–1507) <small>- panel, Galleria Nazionale, Parma</small>
  • Virgin and Child with Saints Paul and Francis (1508–1530) <small>- Oil on wood, National Gallery, London.</small>
  • Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1509–10) <small>- Tempera on panel, Santa Maria del Carmini, Venice.</small>
  • Virgin and child with St George and St James (1510–1511) <small>- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen.</small>
  • Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene (1511–1513) <small>- Tempera on panel, 167 x 110&nbsp;cm, Louvre, Paris. </small>
  • Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Francis, John the Baptist, Jerome, Anthony of Padua, and an Unidentified Female Saint, and Two Donors (c. 1515) <small>- Oil on panel, Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts.</small>
  • Virgin with Child and St John the Baptist and St Francis <small>- Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon.</small>
  • Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors (c. 1515) <small>- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.</small>
  • Saint Peter Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Paul (c.1516) <small>- Oil on canvas, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan</small>
  • The Deposition <small>- Oil on panel, Pushkin Art Museum, Moscow</small>
  • The Archangel Raphael and Tobias with Two Saints (undated) <small>- oil on panel, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice</small>

See also

  • Ciro da Conegliano

References

  • Official Site of the House Cima da Conegliano (Italian)