Giovanni Ambrogio Bevilacqua, also known as il Liberale Bevilacqua (active by 1481 to at least 1512) was an Italian painter active in Lombardy in a late-medieval or early Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Vincenzo Foppa of Milan.Short biography in the Musee National d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg .
Biography Bevilacqua was apparently born in Milan to a carpenter named Pietro. By 1481, he was noted under the patronage of Duke Francesco Sforza. He signed in 1485 a fresco depicting Saints Roch, Sebastian, and Christopher and perhaps also completed a Madonna and Saints with Donors for the parish church of Landriano.La Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, by Electa Lombardia, Milan, multiple editors, (1993); page 443.
Works Madonna and Child, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan,Bevilacqua Room of Museo Bagatti Valsecchi of Milan. Madonna Piccinella, Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of Milan Madonna with Child, St Peter Martyr, King David, and Donor, Pinacoteca Brera, MilanLa Pittura in Lombardia: Il Quattrocento, page 443. Castello Visconteo (Pavia) Metropolitan Museum of New York,God the Father at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. National Museum of Art of Luxembourg Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist, St Bernard of Clairveaux and a donor, Accademia Carrara in Bergamo,Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and Donor, featured in exhibit titled 14 & 16th century Italian paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Waddesdon Manor in EnglandFour Saints in Waddesdon Manor at Waddesdon, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
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