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Giovanni II Bentivoglio (12 February 1443 – 15 February 1508) was an Italian nobleman who ruled as tyrant of Bologna from 1463 until 1506. He had no formal position, but held power as the city's "first citizen."
Both this panel of Ginevra Bentivoglio and the companion portrait of her husband, Giovanni II Bentivoglio, also in the National Gallery of Art, were created when the family was at the height of its power. Giovanni, a major political figure in northern Italy, ruled the city of Bologna from 1463 until his expulsion for tyranny in 1506.
Giovanni II Bentivoglio (Bologna, 15 febbraio 1443 – Milano, 16 febbraio 1508) è stato un nobile italiano, signore de facto di Bologna dal 1463 al 1506
Bentivoglio, Giovanni II (1443–1508) Ruler of the Italian city of Bologna who made important improvements to the city and reigned over a splendid Renaissance court.
Giovanni Bentivoglio, Prince of Bologna. born in 1443; governed Bologna from 1463 – 1508. Died 1509. Artist: Sperandio of Mantova — Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Goldsmith (1435-1520). The most prolific medallist of the 15th Century (48 medals), lived mostly in Ferrara; 5 years in Venice and 10 years in Bologna.
The Bentivoglio Altarpiece is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Costa, dating to August 1488. It is displayed in the Bentivoglio Chapel of the church of San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna, Italy.
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Giovanni II Bentivoglio. (1443—1508) Quick Reference. (1443–1508), Ruler of Bologna, born on 15 February 1443, the posthumous son of Annibale Bentivoglio, who was ruler of Bologna until his murder, and Donnina Visconti. Giovanni became ‘first citizen’ ... From: Bentivoglio, Giovanni II in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance »
