Bernardo Bitti Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Bernardo Bitti Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 19, 2024
18th Century Colonial School - Virgin of Valvanera
Est: €2,000 - €5,000
Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 58 x 45 cm.
Templum Fine Art Auctions
Nov. 25, 2024
Attributed to BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, Italy, 1548-Lima, 1610). "Dolorosa". Oil on copper. It has frame of the seventeenth century.
Est: €4,000 - €5,000
Attributed to BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, Italy, 1548-Lima, 1610). "Dolorosa". Oil on copper. It has frame of the seventeenth century. Measurements: 18 x 14 cm; 45,5 x 41,5 cm (frame). Devotional work that presents the bust of the Virgin Mary in the foreground, captured in large size, occupying most of the pictorial surface and even coming out of it. It is a monumental figure, worked with great delicacy and illuminated directly by a clear and uniform light, with classical roots. Mary stands out against a neutral, flat and dark background. The Virgin appears dressed in a red tunic, alluding to the Passion of Christ and her own pain for the death of her Son, and a blue mantle, usual in Marian iconography as a symbol of truth and eternity. The figure shows a dynamic position, elegantly twisted, with her face tilted to one side and turned downwards, towards the faithful praying at her feet, showing herself as intercessor between God and men. It is an image of great beauty, in which an idealized but naturalistic face stands out, with large and expressive sunken eyes, drooping eyelids, long and elegant nose, and small mouth, puckered in a smile. Formally, in this work he approaches the aesthetic precepts of the artist Bernardo Bitti, Jesuit priest and painter. He introduced Mannerism in Peru, where he went on a mission after studying in Rome. On his way to Peru, Bitti traveled through Spain, where he was influenced by Sevillian painting, especially that of Luis de Morales. Bitti arrived in Peru in 1575 and began painting for churches, first in Lima and, from 1583, in Cuzco. Among his works in Lima are La Coronación de la Virgen, typically mannerist, and La Virgen de la Candelaria for the church of San Pedro. The Immaculate Conception was a recurring theme in his paintings, one of which is in the Monastery of La Merced in Cuzco. In addition to Mannerism, his works reflect ideas of the Counter-Reformation and the religious education of the indigenous people. After 1584, Bitti traveled throughout South America. His nomadic lifestyle was a testament to his popularity among the Jesuits, but prevented him from establishing a workshop or having apprentices. Nevertheless, his influence in the region was immense and mannerism endured in South America even when it had fallen out of favor in Europe. Bitti is considered the founder of the Cuzco school of painting.
Setdart Auction House
Nov. 14, 2024
Attributed to BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, 1548 - Lima, 1610) - Crowned Virgin in Prayer
Est: €5,000 - €10,000
Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 63 x 48.5 cm
Templum Fine Art Auctions
Jun. 29, 2023
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, Peru, 1610)
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, Peru, 1610) "Saint John on Patmos" Oil on copper. 26 x 19 cm. On the back, there is an engraved owner's inscription, which unfortunately is illegible: "I belong to..." The Virgin of the Apocalypse, narrated by Saint John the Evangelist in exile on Patmos. "A great sign appeared in heaven," recounts Saint John in the book of Revelation in the Bible. It is the image of a "woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." The figure of the Apocalyptic Virgin is the symbol of the Church, inheritor of all the glory of Israel, and conceived as the mother of the Son of God. She appears to the evangelist and seer clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet and a crown of twelve stars encircling her head, an image that would later be adopted to depict the Immaculate Conception of Mary by Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. A dragon - symbolising the devil - battles against the woman - symbolising the Church - whom God guards and defends by giving her the wings of a great eagle to fly to the desert and preserve her from the devil. Hence, the figure of the eagle is often present alongside Saint John the Evangelist. An anachronistic vision of the saint is often seen in art depicting the Vision on Patmos, as it portrays him as a young man who appears to have only aged a decade since his adolescence during the Passion of Jesus. In reality, Saint John would already have been very old, as his death is estimated to have occurred around the year 104, at an advanced age. Arts of the Spanish Americas
La Suite Subastas
Dec. 01, 2022
Attributed to Bernado Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, Peru 1610)
Est: €13,000 - €16,000
Attributed to Bernado Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, Peru 1610) "Holy Family with the Infant Saint John" Oil on canvas. With its original period carved and polychromed wooden frame. 117,5 x 100 cm.
La Suite Subastas
Sep. 28, 2022
Circle of BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, Italy, 1548-Lima, 1610). "Virgin".
Est: €8,000 - €9,000
Circle of BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, Italy, 1548-Lima, 1610). "Virgin". Oil on panel. It shows losses and restorations on the pictorial layer. It conserves a period frame with faults in the carving. Measurements: 43,5 x 35 cm; 61 x 53 cm (frame). Devotional work which presents us with the Virgin Mary bust-length, in the foreground and captured at a large size, occupying the majority of the pictorial surface and even going out of it. It is a monumental figure, worked with great delicacy and directly illuminated by a clear, uniform, classical light. Mary stands out against a neutral, flat, dark background, illuminated around her head by the halo of golden light and by the colour of the inner fabric of her cloak. The Virgin is dressed in a red tunic, alluding to the Passion of Christ and her own grief at the death of her Son, and a blue cloak, common in Marian iconography as a symbol of the concepts of truth and eternity. The figure is in a dynamic, elegantly twisted position, with her face tilted to one side and turned downwards towards the faithful praying at her feet, showing herself as an intercessor between God and man. It is an image of great beauty, in which an idealised but naturalistic face stands out, with large, expressive, deep-set eyes, drooping eyelids, a long, elegant nose and a small mouth, puckered into a smile. Formally, this work is close to the aesthetic precepts of the artist Angelino Medoro (Naples, 1567 - Seville, 1631), who trained artistically in Rome. He later moved to Seville and finally moved to South America. From 1586 he was in Colombia in Santa Fé de Bogotá (today Bogotá), where he left an abundant pictorial production. In 1592 he moved to Quito in Ecuador, where he worked for the Dominicans in the convent of San Domenico. Medoro's pupils included some of the initiators of the Quito school of painting, on whom he exerted a great stylistic influence. In 1600 he moved to Lima in Peru, where he worked for a long time for various religious orders. In 1617 Medoro was called upon to paint the work of Saint Rose of Lima that is kept in the sanctuary. Among his most renowned pupils were the artists Luis de Riaño, Leonardo Jaramillo and Antonio Bermejo. Medoro returned to Spain after 1620 and died in Seville in 1631. Angelino Medoro contributed, together with Bernardo Bitti and Mateo Pérez de Alesio, to the introduction of Renaissance canons in South America and to the formation of a new school of Latin American artists.
Setdart Auction House
Mar. 10, 2022
Seventeenth-century Lima school. Circle of BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, Italy, 1548-Lima, Peru, 1610). "Saint Peter Martyr". Oil on canvas. It presents faults, losses, repainting and restorations.
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Seventeenth-century Lima school. Circle of BERNARDO BITTI (Camerino, Italy, 1548-Lima, Peru, 1610). "Saint Peter Martyr". Oil on canvas. It presents faults, losses, repainting and restorations. Measurements: 55,5 x 40,5 cm; 74 x 65 cm (frame). This work represents Saint Peter of Verona (Italy, 1205-1252), a Dominican martyr born in the bosom of a family that followed the Cathar heresy who, at the age of sixteen, fascinated by the word of Saint Dominic of Guzmán, receives the Dominican habit from his own hands. The present canvas was painted by an artist from the circle of Bernardo Bitti, a Jesuit coadjutor brother and Italian painter who worked in Lima, Cusco, Ayacucho, La Paz and Sucre. Bitti's arrival on the American continent was very important as it marked the initial development of Cuzco art. He introduced Mannerism, one of the main pictorial trends in vogue in Europe at the time, to Cuzco. After completing his ecclesiastical training, Saint Peter Martyr was appointed preacher of the Gospel of Jesus in the face of the Italian Cathars, a task he carried out with piety and austerity, achieving great fame throughout Italy. One day, the holy martyrs Agnes, Cecilia and Catherine appeared to him in his cell and he was reprimanded for having violated the enclosure by welcoming women into his cell. The saint did not defend himself and acknowledged that he was a sinner and was punished. In the solitude of his punishment, he intensified his study and prayer, and one day he unburdened himself in front of a crucifix, asking "What evil have I done, Lord, to see me as I am? Christ then consoles and comforts him with these words, "And I, Peter, what evil have I done?". At last the truth triumphs and he is appointed Inquisitor General by Pope Gregory IX, allowing him to continue his evangelising work in Rome, Florence and Milan. He was finally killed while crossing the Barlassina forest on his way back to Milan. His murderer struck him with an axe in the back of the head and stabbed him in the chest, weapons that often appear in pictorial representations of the saint. The crime was plotted by the heretic bishop Daniele da Giussano, who had paid the murderer 40 Milanese pounds, making his death an echo of that of Christ.
Setdart Auction House
Mar. 03, 2022
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610)
Est: €4,500 - €5,500
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Saint John in Patmos" Oil on copper. 31 x 22,5 cm. Bitti, who was a Jesuit priest, was the first mannerist painter to arrive in the Viceroyalty of Peru, in 1575, and he worked in the Jesuit churches in Lima, Cuzco and Upper Peru, bringing the art and sculpture of Europe to indigenous artists and assisting in the training in the first painting and sculpture workshops. Colonial.
La Suite Subastas
Nov. 25, 2021
COLONIAL SCHOOL. LATE 16TH CENTURY - EARLY 17TH CENTURY BERNARDO BITTI CIRCLE (CAMERINO, ITALY, 1548 - LIMA, 1610)
Est: €6,500 - €8,000
Colonial School. Late 16th century - early 17th century Bernardo Bitti Circle (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Mercedarian Carmelites" Oil on canvas. Relined. 65 x 52 cm.
La Suite Subastas
Nov. 25, 2021
ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARDO BITTI (CAMERINO, ITALY, 1548 - LIMA, 1610)
Est: €7,500 - €9,000
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Saint Peter the Martyr" Oil on canvas. 55 x 40 cm. With carved ebonised wood period frame.
La Suite Subastas
Nov. 25, 2021
ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARDO BITTI (CAMERINO, ITALY, 1548 - LIMA, 1610)
Est: €3,000 - €3,500
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Madonna with Christ Child and the Infant Saint John" Oil on copper. 22,5 x 16,5 cm.
La Suite Subastas
Jun. 08, 2021
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610)
Est: €6,000 - €7,000
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Saint Dominic de Guzmán" Oil on canvas. 66 x 85 cm.
La Suite Subastas
Jun. 08, 2021
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610)
Est: €4,500 - €5,500
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Madonna and Child" Oil on panel. 43 x 31,5 cm. With a carved and gilded period wooden frame.
La Suite Subastas
Jul. 07, 2020
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino 1548-1610 Lima, Peru) The Immaculate Conception
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino 1548-1610 Lima, Peru) The Immaculate Conception oil on panel 118.3 x 73.1cm (46 9/16 x 28 3/4in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Jun. 25, 2020
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610)
Est: €18,000 - €20,000
Attributed to Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Italy, 1548 - Lima, 1610) "Saint Mark" and "Saint Luke" Pair of magnificent carved, gilded and polychromed reliefs. Colonial School. Viceroyalty of Peru. 16th century. 82 x 94 cm. each. Bitti, a Jesuit priest, was the first mannerist painter to arrive to the Viceroyalty of Peru, in 1575, and he worked in Jesuit churches in Lima, Cuzco and Upper Peru, bringing the art of European painting and sculpture to the hands of indigenous artists and supporting the formation of the first painting and sculpture workshops. These are comparable, in our opinion, to the marvellous “Saint Ignatius of Antioch,” painted by Bernardo Bitti circa 1585, and which possibly came from the first main altarpiece at the Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús (Church of the Society of Jesus) in Cuzco, it can currently be found at the Lima Art Museum. Colonial Sculpture.
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