GIOVANNI BUONCONSIGLIO, called Il Marescalco. — Vicentine painter, active especially in Venice, where he worked from 1495 to 1535.
The *Pietà* of Vicenza, which is his masterpiece, ranks among the earliest works and shows the influence of Montagna and Antonello (cf. also a male portrait in the Capitoline Gallery in Rome); later, under the influence of the painting of Giambellino, the incisive line that characterized his style gives way to a softer and richer coloristic handling. Thus in the fragment at the Accademia in Venice with the heads of SS. Casma, Benedetto, and Tecla (1497), in the *St. Catherine* and in the altarpiece of St. Roch in the Gallery of Vicenza (1502). But he was unable to absorb the new direction of Venetian Quattrocento painting, as is shown by the Virgin and Saints of the Duomo of Montagnana, the two altarpieces of S. Giacomo dell’Orio and of S. Spirito in Venice (1511), where the figures lose much of their original monumentality; this tendency becomes even more pronounced in the altarpiece of S. Peter at Montecchio Maggiore (1519), the last dated work of B.
Buontalenti, Bernardo — Façade of the church of S. Trinita. Florence.