Ambrosius Benson | An Italian Northern Renaissance Painter

 

The Magdalen Reading, 1535

Ambrosius Benson was was a well known Italian painter who later became a part of Northern Renaissance. Most of his art works have been attributed not much is known about him. He did not used to sign his paintings. He painted religious art works and also painted portraits of commission. Though he was an Italian artist but scholars consider him of Flemish school of painting. 

His noted paintings:

• Portrait of Jean Wyts, 1520–1530, The Phoebus Foundation
• The Descent from the Cross, 1528
• The Magdalen Reading, 1535
• Portrait of Anne Stafford 1535
• Virgin with Pear, date unknown
• Virgin and Child with Saints, date unknown
• Deipara Virgo, date unknown
• Elegant couples dancing in a landscape, date unknown. Currently exhibited at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)
• Late 19th-century version of one of his Sibilla Persica paintings, showing a half-length female reading a book held in her hands
• Ambrosius Benson's The Magdalen Reading, c. 1525.

Virgin with Pear, date unknown

Elegant couples dancing in a landscape, date unknown. Currently exhibited at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA)

Virgin and Child with Saints, date unknown

Late 19th-century version of one of his Sibilla Persica paintings, showing a half-length female reading a book held in her hands

Portrait of Anne Stafford 1535

Ambrosius Benson's The Magdalen Reading, c. 1525.

The Descent from the Cross, 1528

Portrait of Jean Wyts, 1520–1530, The Phoebus Foundation

Deipara Virgo, date unknown