Benedetto Rusconi, nicknamed the Diana, (ca. 1460 – 1525)
National Gallery of Art. Retrieved April 17, 2018. was an

Italian Renaissance painter Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political sta ...

, a companion of

Vittore Carpaccio Vittore Carpaccio ( , , ; – ) was an Italian painter of the Venetian School (art), Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini. Carpaccio was largely influenced by the style of the early Italian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina ...

and

Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti (also known as Giovanni Mansueti; c. 1465 – March 26, 1527) was an Italian painter. Little is known of his biography. He was active in Venice from 1485 to 1526. A pupil of Gentile Bellini, he worked in the anti ...

, who lived in the latter part of the 15th and early part of the 16th centuries. He may have been a pupil of

Lazzaro Bastiani Lazzaro Bastiani (1429 – 5 April 1512) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. He was born in Padua. He is first recorded as a painter in Venice by 1460 in a payment for an altarpiece of San Samuele, for the Procura ...

.Richardson, F. (2003). "Diana usconi Benedetto". Grove Art Online. He worked both in

tempera Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. ''Tempera'' also refers to the paintings done in ...

and

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. A number of his paintings are in Venice. He painted ''The Brethren distributing Alms'', in San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, and he assisted

in painting the standards on the Piazza of San Marco. In the

Accademia Gallery The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze () is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture ''David (Michelangelo), David''. It also has other sculptures by Michelangelo and a large collection of pai ...

are included his ''Virgin and Child'', formerly in Santa Lucia at

Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

, and a ''Transfiguration''. The church of Santa Maria della Croce in Crema has an altarpiece depicting the ''Gift of the Miraculous Girdle to St Thomas''. A ''Madonna and Child With St Jerome'' is on display at the

Lowe Art Museum Lowe Art Museum is the art museum of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The museum is located on the campus of the University of Miami and is accessible by Metrorail (Miami-Dade County), Miami Metrorail at University station (Miami- ...

in Coral Gables, Florida. The art historian Francis L. Richardson describes Rusconi's style as possessing a "formidable individuality" characterized by an emphasis on geometric forms and a "quirkiness of detail that allies imwith such artists as Jacopo de’ Barbari and Lorenzo Lotto."

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Benedetto Diana on Artcyclopedia
Year of birth unknown 1525 deaths Italian Renaissance painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Venice {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub