Also known as Giovanni Battista da Faenza. There is a signed and dated triptych of 1506 (in Faenza). His style appears to have been influenced by Costa and Perugino. He has been confused with the painter now identified as Biagio di Antonio of Florence.
Giovanni Battista Bertucci the Elder
active 1495; died 1516
Paintings by Giovanni Battista Bertucci the Elder
Saint Thomas, who doubted that Christ had risen from the dead, raises his finger to touch the spear wound in Christ’s side, an episode related in the Gospel of John (20: 20–29). Saint Thomas’s finger, the kneeling donor’s gaze and the parallel lines of the paving all point to Christ’s wound.The F...
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This was the central panel of a multi-panelled altarpiece commissioned in 1512 by Clarice Manfredi, a Dominican prioress, for the chapel of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the church of S. Andrea in Vineis in Faenza. Side panels showing Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint John the Evangelist were placed to th...
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