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Melone, Altobello (da)
(b Cremona, c. 1490; d before 3 May 1543). Italian painter. With Gian Francesco Bembo, he reacted against the classicism of such Cremonese painters of the preceding generation as Boccaccio Boccaccino and Tommaso Aleni ( fl 1505–15). His first work, the Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist (Philadelphia, PA, Mus. A.), is similar to compositions by Aleni, with carefully constructed perspective in the manner of Donato Bramante. From 1500 to 1507 the Venetian painter Marco Marziale lived in Cremona; Melone was only superficially affected by him but seems to have been attracted to Marziale’s sources: northern European painting, particularly that of Dürer, and the work of Giorgione and Titian, as can be seen in his Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist (Bergamo, Gal. Accad. Carrara).
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