He was from Verona, and settled in Venice where he is first recorded in 1528. Large numbers of surviving paintings include a series dating from 1530 onwards painted for Palazzo Camerlenghi, Venice.
Bonifazio di Pitati
1487 - 1553
Paintings by Bonifazio di Pitati
The infant Christ is seated on the Virgin’s lap, accompanied by saints in the meadows of a mountainous landscape. The large semi-ruined classical building behind the Virgin and Christ divides the composition into three, making them appear enthroned in the centre.Saint James sits reading on the ne...
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Studio of Bonifazio di Pitati
This small painting of a huntsman is probably by Bonifazio or his studio. It is painted on canvas and was probably made to decorate a piece of domestic furniture. It may derive from a series representing the Labours of the Months, similar to the later series by a Venetian artist in the National G...
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Style of Bonifazio di Pitati
Saint Catherine sits reading a book on the left, beside the broken spiked wheel on which she was tortured during her martyrdom. The Virgin Mary’s elderly cousin Saint Elizabeth sits on the right holding her son, the infant John the Baptist. He wears his traditional camel skin and holds a scroll...
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After Bonifazio di Pitati
A group of wealthy Venetians sits in the portico of a country house. Two of them play instruments while a young Black page holds their music book. They ignore the beggar who holds out his hand for alms, his sores licked by a dog. The painting is disfigured by ingrained dirt, making it difficult t...
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