Ercole de' Roberti

(1450–1496) Italian Renaissance painter (1450-1496)

Ercole de' Roberti (Italy, 1450–1496) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Ercole de' Roberti belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.

Ercole de' Roberti was born in Ferrara and died in Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti studied under Francesco del Cossa. Ercole de' Roberti worked in Bologna, Venice, Mantua, and Ferrara.

The best-known works include ‘Portia and Brutus’, ‘Pendant portraits of the Bentivoglios’, ‘The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children’, and ‘Saint Anthony Abbot’. The catalogue has 26 works by Ercole de' Roberti with free images. The dated works span the years 1470–1493. Works by Ercole de' Roberti are held by several collections, among them National Gallery, Gemäldegalerie, Cook collection, and Département des peintures du Louvre. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Sandro Botticelli, Neroccio di Bartolommeo de' Landi, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Bartolomeo della Gatta, and Martín Bernat.

• The Renaissance
• Santa Maria in Porto Altarpiece