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Jacopo palma il vecchio saint barbara

          The Polyptych of Saint Barbara was painted by Palma Vecchio in the early s as the altarpiece for the Venetian church of Santa Maria Formosa.!

          Around , the Confraternity of the Bombardiers commissioned Palma Vecchio to make a polyptych in honor of their patroness, Saint Barbara, to adorn the altar.

        1. Around , the Confraternity of the Bombardiers commissioned Palma Vecchio to make a polyptych in honor of their patroness, Saint Barbara, to adorn the altar.
        2. In the central panel Barbara stands before her tower with a palm branch.
        3. The Polyptych of Saint Barbara was painted by Palma Vecchio in the early s as the altarpiece for the Venetian church of Santa Maria Formosa.
        4. Jacopo Palma il Vecchio Saint Barbara.
        5. The present painting follows the composition by Palma Il Vecchio painted circa , the central image in the St. Barbara Altar, Church of Santa Maria Formosa.

          6. Palma Vecchio

          Italian painter (c.1480–1528)

          Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), born Jacopo Palma,[citation needed] also known as Jacopo Negretti, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance.

          He is called Palma Vecchio in English and Palma il Vecchio in Italian ("Palma the Elder") to distinguish him from Palma il Giovane ("Palma the Younger"), his great-nephew, who was also a painter.

          Life

          Palma was born at Serina Alta near Bergamo, a dependency of the Republic of Venice, but his recorded career all took place in or near Venice.

          He is first recorded in Venice in 1510, but had probably already been there for some time.[1] He was perhaps apprenticed to Andrea Previtali, who also came from Bergamo, and who returned there in 1511.[2] Palma's earlier works show the influence of Giovanni Bellini, Previtali's master and by then the aged doyen of Venetian painting, but Palma came to follow the new style and subjects