Girolamo da Santacroce

Italian painter

Girolamo da Santacroce (c. 1480/85 – c. 1556) was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and the Venetian mainland.^[1]

Life and work

Girolamo da Santacroce was born in Bergamo, Italy.^[1] He became in Venice a pupil of the painter Gentile Bellini. On Gentile's death in 1507, Santacroce was left in Gentile's will half of the Oriental drawings made be Gentile. Santacroce then most likely worked as an assistant in the workshops of Giovanni Bellini and Cima da Conegliano.^[2]

He was a prolific artist and many of his works are signed and dated. He produced many copies after the works of the leading Venetian masters. His work shows the influence of Titian and Palma Vecchio.^[2]

He is represented at the Musei Civici of Vicenza by a Madonna con il Bambino tra i santi Cosma e Damiano(?)^[3] It is unclear if he is related to a sculptor named Girolamo Santacroce in Naples.

Gallery

The Annunciation, circa 1540
Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Vitus, Julian the Hospitaller, and Hieronymus
Resurrection
Last Supper, 1549
Madonna and Child with the Donor among Saints John the Baptist, Francis, Hieronymus, and Sebastian
Madonna Enthroned with Child between Saints Hieronymus and Zacharias, 1507
Madonna Enthroned with Child detail
Madonna Enthroned with Child detail
St. Jerome and St. Augustine, Madonna dell'Orto, (Venice)

Secondary sources

Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. pp. 158–9.
Ludwig, Gustav (1903). "Archivalische Beiträge zur Geschichte der venezianischen Malerei". Jahrbuch der Königlich-preussischen Kunstsammlungen. 24 Band. Weidmannsche Buchhundlung, Berlin: 10–20.

References

^ ^a ^b Brief Bio of Girolamo da Santa Croce at the National Gallery
^ ^a ^b Anchise Tempestini. "Santacroce, Girolamo da." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 30 March 2016
^ Musei Civici Vicenza.