Bonvicino, Alessandro

Bonvicino, Alessandro (also called Moretto), an Italian painter, was born at Brescia in 1514, and studied under Titian. At the age of sixteen, he painted a picture of St. Niccolo in the Church of the Madonna de Miracoli. There are two pictures by him of St. Lucia and St. Caterina, in the Chiesa di S. Clemente at Brescia; also the principal altar-piece, representing the Virgin and Infant in the Clouds, with Saints below. He died in 1564.