Girolamo da Santacroce

For the sculptor, see Girolamo Santacroce.

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]

Landscape with Rider

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]

Adoration of the Three Kings, circa 1525–1530

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

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  The Annunciation, circa 1540
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  Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Vitus, Julian the Hospitaller, and Hieronymus
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  Resurrection
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  Last Supper, 1549
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  Madonna and Child with the Donor among Saints John the Baptist, Francis, Hieronymus, and Sebastian
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  Madonna Enthroned with Child between Saints Hieronymus and Zacharias, 1507
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  Madonna Enthroned with Child detail
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  Madonna Enthroned with Child detail
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  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.