250px, Frescoes of Pier Maria II de' Rossi and Bianca Pellegrini in the Castle of Torrechiara. Benedetto Bembo (c. 1423 - 1489) was an Italian painter and miniaturist.

Biography

Details of Bembo's life are scarce. He was likely born in

Brescia Brescia (, ; ; or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Lake Garda, Garda and Lake Iseo, Iseo. With a population of 199,949, it is the se ...

, the son of one Giovanni from

Cremona Cremona ( , , ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po (river), Po river in the middle of the Po Valley. It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local city a ...

and the brother of painter

Bonifacio Bembo image:Francesco Sforza.jpg, ''Portrait of Francesco Sforza''. ca. 1460. Tempera on panel, 40 x 31 cm. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Bonifacio Bembo, also called Bonfazio Bembo, or simply just Bembo, was a north Italian Renaissance artist born ...

. His first known work is the Torrechiara Polyptich, of 1462, once housed in the San Nicodemo Chapel of the Castle of Torrechiara and later moved in the Art Gallery of the

Castello Sforzesco The Sforza Castle ( ; ) is a medieval fortification located in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later renovated and enlarged, in the 1 ...

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

. Bembo was also responsible of the decoration of the ''Camera d'Oro'' ("Golden Chamber") in the same castle: it is a

fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

cycle, dating from around 1462, telling the amorous deeds of condottiero

Pier Maria II de' Rossi file:BERCETO_-_Ruderi_del_castello_04.JPG, 250px, Remains of the Castle of Berceto Pier Maria Rossi or Pier Maria II de' Rossi (25 March 1413 – 1 September 1482) was an Italian condottiere and count of a region around present San Secondo Parmense ...

(then owner of the building) and his lover Bianca Pellegrini. Another work is a panel of ''Madonna of Humility and Musician Angels'' (c. 1460) now in the Civic Museum Amedeo Lia of

La Spezia La Spezia (, or ; ; , in the local ) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second-largest city in the Liguria ...

Sources

External links

Page at Enciclopedia Treccani website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bembo, Benedetto 1420s births 1489 deaths Painters from Brescia 15th-century Italian painters