Career
Ingannati"s exact dates of birth and death are not known. Ingannati was probably born in Veneto. The importance of the artist has only relatively recently been recognized as his work used to be confused with that Francesco Bissolo, an artist who also worked in a style reminiscent of Giovanni Bellini.
He trained in the studio of Alvise Vivarini.
His early works show the influence of Giovanni Bellini, especially in the composition, although his art is closer to artists like Lazzaro Bastiani, Marco Basaiti or Benedetto Rusconi. Later, his style became closer to that of Bellini, approaching the way of painting of Vincenzo Catena and showing the superficial influence of innovations introduced by Giorgione.
Ingannati adapted the theme of the Sacra Conversazione so typical of Venetian painting, including repeating patterns, especially in the figures. This type of motif was popularized by Titian.
However, artists like Ingannati or Rocco Marconi continued attached to an archaic style that copied the essence but not the innovations of the most advanced Venetian masters as Francesco Vecellio or Palma Vecchio, without losing the taste for the classic color of the Venetian school.
