1459 - 1539
Birth Place : Forlì, Italy
Marco Palmezzano was an Italian painter and architect, born in Forlì, Italy around 1459 and who died in 1539.
Biography
After his initial training with the painter Melozzo da Forlì—who had collaborated with Piero della Francesca and was widely esteemed as a master of perspective and foreshortening techniques—Palmezzano went to Rome in the early 1490s.
Palmezzano may have then traveled to Jerusalem to join the team painting frescoes at the Holy Cross church there, but no documentary evidence exists for this. He is, however, noted in property records as residing in Venice in 1495. Shortly thereafter, Palmezzano returned to Forlì, where he spent the rest of his long life—apparently with only brief excursions connected with commissions in other places in the region—until his death in 1539.
Influences
Venetian painting, in general, and the work of Giovanni Bellini and Cima da Conegliano, in particular, were to remain the most powerful influences on Palmezzano's output. Moreover, he remained faithful to the Venetian style of the later 15th and early 16th century. Mannerism entirely passed him by, and he seemed immune to subsequent developments in Venetian painting.
Work
One of the most attractive facets of Palmezzano's oeuvre are the distinctive and suggestive landscapes that form the backdrops of many of his altarpieces. These are a blend of the ideal and lyrical, and of the observed reality of the Apennine foothills and mountains to the south of Forli for which Palmezzano clearly had a real affection. These landscapes are also employed to subtle and imaginative effect to convey the symbolic religious messages of the works.
Chronology of work
From his early period exists a Crucifixion in the Pinacoteca Civica of Forlì
* 1492 Virgin with Child between Saints Giovanni Battista and Margherita
* 1493-4 Decorated the Chapel Feo in the Church of San Biagio at Forlì (destroyed in bombing during World War II)
* 1495-7 Palmezzano's masterpiece, his Annunciation altarpiece for Forlì's Carmelite church
* 1490s Virgin and Child with Saints Giacomo and Michele
* 1501 Virgin and Child with Saints Francesco and Caterina (created in Matelica)
' Crucifixion between Gualberto and Maddalena
* 1506 Holy Communion of Apostles. Henceforth Palmezzano's main influence is French painting.
* 1517 Designed the hospital Beaten for Forlì
* 1535 Painted 'The Baptism of Christ' (oil on wood panel)
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