Macrino d alba biography of william
Macrino d'Alba (1460 — 1520), Italian painter | World ......
Macrino d'Alba
This artist, from Alba in the Piedmont, must have been born shortly before 1470.
Macrino d alba biography of william
Nothing is known about his artistic training. His earliest surviving signed work is the triptych, dated 1495, depicting a Madonna enthroned, John the Evangelist and John the Baptist, James the Greater, Thomas Aquinas, and two donors, now in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin.
Like his other paintings probably dating from this time, it betrays the influence of Lombard art, especially that of Ambrogio Bergognone, and of the works of Pinturicchio, in whose Roman workshop Macrino possibly worked up to the early 1490s.
In 1496 he delivered a painting of the Virgin, still in the Certosa di Pavia, that depicts the Madonna and Child between the Carthusian saints Hugo and Anselm. In that same year he also created frescoes in the Certosa d'Asti, which have not survived.
For the same place in 1498 he produced a triptych, now in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, showing the Madonna enthroned