page_title: Benedetto Montagna
hierarchical_section_title: Benedetto Montagna
caption_attribution_description: English: Benedetto Montagna, engraving, Orpheus
context_page_description: Benedetto Montagna was an Italian engraver and painter. Montagna was born in Vicenza, the son of the leading painter of the city, Bartolomeo Montagna, with whom he trained and perhaps continued to work. His approximately 53 engravings seem to have been produced in the period from about 1500 until his father died in 1523 and he inherited the workshop; in these years he was "the most prolific engraver of his generation in northern Italy". He ran the workshop into at least the 1540s, but his paintings fell behind the development of Italian styles as they largely follow his father's style, less successfully. Many do not survive. His prints are generally found more significant by art historians.
  He engraved primarily subjects from classical mythology, with a middle period with many religious subjects in about 1506–12.
context_section_description: Benedetto Montagna (c. 1480–1555/58) was an Italian engraver and painter.  Montagna was born in Vicenza, the son of the leading painter of the city, Bartolomeo Montagna, with whom he trained and perhaps continued to work.  His approximately 53 engravings seem to have been produced in the period from about 1500 until his father died in 1523 and he inherited the workshop; in these years he was "the most prolific engraver of his generation in northern Italy".  He ran the workshop into at least the 1540s, but his paintings fell behind the development of Italian styles as they largely follow his father's style, less successfully. Many do not survive. His prints are generally found more significant by art historians.
  He engraved primarily subjects from classical mythology, with a middle period with many religious subjects in about 1506–12.
caption: Engraving of Orpheus
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