Attr. to Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, Madonna with Child

Attr. to Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, known as Liberale (documented 1481-1512)
Madonna with Child
Oil on panel, 63 x 46 cm

The refined panel in question, from the Lombard school of the early 17th century, due to its particular formal and stylistic approach, allows us to identify the hand of Giovanni Antoni Bevilacqua, known as Liberale.
Bevilacqua was most likely born in Milan in the mid-1481th century; in 1453 he was registered with the painters' guild and was among the artists who worked for Duke Francesco Sforza. He worked mainly for religious clients, creating frescoes for the parish church of Landriano and for the Luogo Pio di Carità in Milan, then working for the Certosa di Pavia alongside Ambrogio Fossano, known as Bergognone (1523-1512). The news about him disappears after he is cited as a witness in a public document in 1453. The matrix of his painting is of Foppesque ancestry, not without affinity with the painting of Bergognone (1523-XNUMX), of which he is considered a pupil in some sources. With maturity these influences will be accompanied by Leonardesque overtones, a consequence of the great master's presence in Lombardy.
The delicacy of the subject fully expresses the sweetness of this painter at the level of intimacy that he manages to achieve with the observer, in search of a profound meaning capable of going beyond the pictorial material: the slightly reclined gazes, the closed eyes of the Child and the Virgin's half-closed eyes and tender gestures participate in this research. The interesting landscape view, although limited to a small space, manages to expand the dimensions of the panel towards an indefinite horizon, with a taste for the landscape of clear Leonardo influence, treated with thin blue glazes.
The pictorial quality of this panel is fully expressed in the delicate passages of light and shadow and in the refined transparency, in the elegant golden profiling and in the use of a palette of enamelled, brilliant and saturated colours.
A fitting stylistic comparison is highlighted with the canvas depicting a Madonna with Child executed by Bevilacqua and today preserved in the Pinacoteca of the Sforzesco Castle and with a Madonna del Latte, in a private Milanese collection. The painting in question also seems to look at some of Bergognone's executions: in the richness of color and the intimate maternal scene of the Madonna with Child preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera and in the delicate and skilful use of gold in the Madonna with Child in the Royal Museums of Turin , without forgetting the Marian compositions of Vincenzo Foppa.

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