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Italian painter

Altobello Melone (c. – – before 3 May )^[1][2] was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

Biography

Melone was born in Cremona. His work merges Lombard and Mannerist styles. In Cremona, he encountered the elder Girolamo Romanino. He was commissioned in December to fresco the Cathedral of Cremona, work which continued until His contract required that his frescoes be more beautiful than those of his predecessor, Boccaccio Boccaccino. He worked alongside Giovanni Francesco Bembo and Paolo da Drizzona.^[3]Francesco Prata was influenced by Melone.

Melone contributed frescoes to the Cathedral of Cremona in The Lamentation in the Pinacoteca di Brera^[4] comes in all probability from the church of Saint Lorenzo in Brescia and is dated The stylistic convergence with Romanino is particularly obvious, such that the contemporary Venetian Marcantonio Michiel describes the Cremonese painter as a "disciple of