The Virgin & Child are seated behind a parapet. Christ is shown with two cherries. Two angels adore the Christ Child. This work has much in common with the paintings of Boccaccio Boccaccino, but the landscape appears more reminiscent of Previtali. A variant of the composition in the style of Boccaccino exists (Liphardt collection) & the work in this Collection is now tentatively thought to be by Previtali but based on a design by Boccaccino, presumably at the suggestion of the patron. This connection can be explained by the geographical proximity of Bergamo (Previtali's home from about 1512 until his death in 1528) to Cremona (Boccaccino's home from 1506 until his death about 1524-5). ...

The group of the Virgin & Child is taken from Giovanni Bellini's altarpiece of 1505 in San Zaccaria, Venice; it occurs in other pictures by Bissolo. Saint Paul carries his attributes of a sword, by which he was martyred, & a book. ...

Of the saints, only Francis of Assisi (about 1181
- 1226) can be identified with certainty; he is the figure standing far left.
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The Virgin is seated on a wooden bench in front of a large wicker firescreen, the shape of which suggests a halo, & appears to have been nursing the infant Christ. She is shown as the Queen of Heaven in her palace. Her richly ornamented dress, precious ...

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This small triptych is in its original frame. The Virgin & Child are enthroned in the central panel. On the left-hand shutter is an unidentified bishop saint, & on the right-hand shutter Saint Louis. On the reverses, shown when the shutters were close ...

In the centre are shown the Virgin & Child enthroned. In the lower row, from left to right are Saints Bernardino, Anthony of Padua, Peter Martyr & John the Baptist. In the upper row are Saints Jerome, Catherine, the Pieta, Saint Sebastian & a female ...

This painting formed the central part of an altarpiece in the chapel of the Roverella family in S. Giorgio fuori le mura in Ferrara. Pairs of saints with kneeling members of the Roverella family stood in the flanking panels, in an architectural interior c ...

On the left Saint John the Baptist & Saint Zenobius are shown standing near the kneeling Saint Jerome. On the right stand Saint Peter & Saint Dominic while the kneeling figure is Saint Francis. Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint this picture on 2 ...

The Virgin Mary is shown on an inlaid marble throne, with an Eastern carpet at her feet. The Christ Child holds a pomegranate, a symbol of the Passion. The form of the signature, meaning Gentile Bellini, Knight of Venice, indicates that the picture cannot be from before 1469, when Gentile Bellini was knighted. The decorative treatment & some details, such as the tiny trees in the Gothic tradition, would suggest a fairly early date. ...