Giampietrino, probably Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli (active 1495–1549),Though Andrea Bayer says "rather securely identified" (Bayer, "North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, 60.4 [Spring, 2003], p. 19), Sydney J. Freedberg says "It is uncertain whether this painter is to be identified with Gian Pietro Rizzi or Giovanni di Pietro of Como." (Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600 3rd ed. 1993:383, note 25). was a north Italian painter of the Lombard school and Leonardo's circle, succinctly characterized by S. J. Freedberg as an "exploiter of Leonardo's repertory."Freedberg, 1993:383.
Biography
Giampietrino was a productive painter of large altarpieces, Madonnas, holy women in half figure, and mythological women. For a long time, the true identity of the artist was unknown; he was only known as a so-called "Giampietrino" whose name appeared in lists of the members of Leonardo's studio. In 1929, Wilhelm Suida suggested that he could perhaps be Giovanni Battista Belmonte, since a Madonna signed with this name and dated 1509 had been associated stylistically with Giampietrino. Since then, this assumption is considered outdated, and Giampietrino is identified predominantly with Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli, who is known through documents.
Giampietrino has been regarded as a talented painter who contributed substantially to the distribution of the late style of Leonardo da Vinci. He copied many works by Leonardo, as well as leaving behind numerous capable original compositions of his own. Many of his works are preserved in multiple versions of the same subject.
Selected works
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Mary with the Child. (attributed) Berlin, Gemäldegalerie St. Mary Magdalene in the prayer. St. Catharine of Alexandria Weeping Christ with a founder. The Birth Christ. (attributed) Budapest, Hungary Museum of Fine Arts Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Michael (1535) Burgos, Cathedral Mary Magdalene. Cambridge (Massachusetts), Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum The Holy Family. Chantilly, Musée Condé Head of a Woman. (Fragment) Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts Salvator Mundi Gazzada Schianno, Museo Cagnola The Holy Family. Florence, Uffizi Gallery Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Gloucester, Highnam Court Mary with the Child (Madonna with the Lily). (attributed) Isola Bella, Collezione Borromeo Dido. Sophronia. Kassel, Old Master Picture Gallery Leda and her Children. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Art Gallery Cleopatra. around 1525 London, Courtauld institutes Galleries Mary with the Child and the St. Jerome. (attributed) Mary with the Child (Madonna with the Lily). (attributed) London, National Gallery Christ, Carrying the Cross. around 1510 - 1530 Salome. around 1510 - 1530 London, Private Collections Salome. Ecce Homo. London, Royal Academy The Holy Communion. The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci Madison (Wisconsin), Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison Lucrezia Romana. around 1525 Milan, Collezione Brivio Sforza The Nymph Hegeria. Milan, Collezione Nembrini Venus and Cupid. Milan, Private collection Christ with the Crown of Thorns. Milan, Collezione Rob Smeets Mary with the Child (Madonna with the Cherries). Milan, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi Polyptych: Madonna Enthroned with Saints, Christ the Redeemer, and Christ as Salvator Mundi. Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana Mary with the Child. The Holy Family with St. Roch St. John the Evangelist. Ecce homo. Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco St. Mary Magdalene Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera St. Mary Magdalene Reading. Paying for Mary Magdalene. Mary with the Child and the Lamb. (unfinished) Mary with the Child. Milan, Sant' Alessandro Christ at the Scourge Column. Morimondo, Abbazia di Santa Maria di Morimondo Christ, Sitting at the Grave. Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts Christ as Salvator Mundi. Neapel, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonti St. Mary Magdalene in Prayer. Mary with the child and Sts. John the Baptist and Jerome. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Diana the Huntress. Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Cleopatra. around 1520 - 1540 (attributed) Ospedaletto Lodigiano, parish church Mary with the Child and the Sts. Jerome and John the Baptist. Paris, Musée National du Louvre The Death of Cleopatra by an Asp. Pavia, Curia Vescovile Mary with the Child and Sts. Jerome and John the Baptist. Pavia Civic Museums Magdalene Ponce, Museo di Arte de Ponce St. John the Baptist. around 1530 Ponte Capriasca, Sant' Ambrogio Mary with the Child of Loretto with Sts. John the Baptist and Katharina of Alexandria. Portland, Oregon Portland Art Museum St. Mary Magdalene. c. 1521; holding jar of oil Prague, Sternbersky Palace St. Mary Magdalene Rome, Galleria Borghese Mary with the Child. Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts Penitent St. Jerome Seattle, Seattle Art museum Mary with the Child and St. John the Baptist. around 1510 - 1515 San Francisco, Fine Arts museum St. Catherine of Alexandria. St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum Mary with Child. around 1520 - 1530 Christ with the Symbol of the Holy Trinity Praying St. Mary Magdalene. St. John the Evangelist. (attributed) São Paulo, Museu de Arte The Virgin Nursing the Child with St. John the Baptist in Adoration. around 1500 - 1520 Turin, Galleria Sabauda Christ, Carrying the Cross. Waco, Texas, Baylor University, Armstrong-Browning Library, Kress Collection Christ, the Man of Sorrows. around 1540 Washington, Howard University Gallery of Art St. Mary Magdalene. around 1530 (attributed)
Notes
References
William Suida: Leonardo and His Circle, (Munich: Bruckmann) 1929. The Legacy of Leonardo, (Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A.), 1998.
External links Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Giampietrino (see index)