Cima da Conegliano

Giovanni Battista Cima, often known simply as Cima da Conegliano, was a prominent Italian Renaissance painter active primarily in Venice from the late 15th to early 16th centuries. Born in Conegliano around 1459 or 1460, his family surname, Cima, came from his father's profession as a cloth-shearer (cimator). Cima's artistic journey began in Vicenza, where his earliest dated work, the *Madonna of the Arbour* (1489), shows the clear influence of Bartolomeo Montagna. This earl…