Marziale, Marco

Marco Marziale (1492-93 - 1507)

• Was Marco Marziale was a Venetian painter.
• He was a pupil of Giovanni Bellini.
• From January 1493 he was employed by the Republic of Venice as an assistant to Giovanni Bellini on the Great Council Chamber in the Doge's Palace at a fairly modest salary.
• In 1493 he joined the confraternity of the Scuola di San Marco.
• In about 1500 he may have moved to Cremona.
• In 1507 he signed works now in London and Berlin, after which nothing further about him is known.
• In Cremona, he influenced, and may have trained, Altobello Melone.
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Marco Marziale, Portrait of a Young Man, 1496

Original, Slovak National Gallery Zvolen Castle, Slovakia. Visited in 2021.

Marco Marziale, Portrait of a Man (Giulio Mellini?). Reverse, Landscape with an orange tree on which are hung two escutcheons, one of which bears a coat of arms, 1460 - 1500

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Marco Marziale, Portrait of a Man (Giulio Mellini?). Reverse, Landscape with an orange tree on which are hung two escutcheons, one of which bears a coat of arms, 1460 - 1500

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Marco Marziale, Portrait of a Man (Giulio Mellini?). Reverse, Landscape with an orange tree on which are hung two escutcheon, 1460-1500

Marco Marziale, The Circumcision, 1500

Original, National Gallery of Art in London. Visited in 2018-2019.

Marco Marziale, The Circumcision, 1500