Altobello Melone

He worked alongside Giovanni Francesco Bembo and Paolo da Drizzona.

The Lamentation in the Pinacoteca di Brera[4] comes in all probability from the church of Saint Lorenzo in Brescia and is dated 1512.

The stylistic convergence with Romanino is particularly obvious, such that the contemporary Venetian Marcantonio Michiel describes the Cremonese painter as a "disciple of Armanin".

Moreover, in his masterpiece frescoes, Melone aims to be an interpreter of the anticlassicism and "expressionist" language emerging in the work of Romanino.

The seven scenes realized by Altobello evince a new forcefulness – the Massacre of the Innocents is emblematic of this quality, which is manifest in the gestures and in the grotesque transformation of the faces.