AMALTEO, POMPONIO. - Painter, b. at Motta di Livenza in 1505, d. 9 March 1588 at S. Vito al Tagliamento. Throughout his output he remains constantly faithful to Pordenone, whose daughter he had married, often going so far as to imitate him, as in the Cathedral (chapel of St. Nicholas, 1533) and in the church of the hospital of S. Vito (Vita della Vergine, 1535); but, lacking his father-in-law's fervid genius, he weakens his forms, darkens his color, and exaggerates his movement. He was nevertheless a good composer and had a facility of execution that in his last period degenerated into mannerism. Among his best works should be remembered the frescoes of the Cathedral and of the Castles of Belluno and Udine, the Vita della Vergine in S. Maria della Grazie at Prodolone of 1538, the Storie di S. Caterina in the church of the same name at Tolmezzo; numerous others remain in various localities of Friuli.

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BIBL.: G. Fogolari, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 373-374; A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, IX, III, Milan 1927, p. 561.

Maria Donati

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