Girolamo di Benvenuto (1470 – 1524)

• Was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance.
• His Father was the painter Benvenuto di Giovanni.
• Benvenuto was born and died in Siena.
• Learning the basics of art under his father's watchful supervision.
• He was a contemporary of Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Bernardino Fungai and Pinturicchio.
• His first independent work, The Assumption of Mary of 1498 for the city of Montalcino, Girolamo shows several differences to his father's style.
• His most notable work, signed and dated to 1508, is his Madonna of the Snow, now in the Pinacoteca in Siena.
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