Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered allowance of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da Messina, in the prominence he gives to landscape backgrounds and the tranquil impression of his works. Once formed his style did not bend greatly. He mostly painted religious subjects, often on a little scale for homes rather than churches, but as well as a few, mostly small, mythological ones.
He often repeated popular subjects in every second versions with offend variations, including his Madonnas and Saint Jerome in a Landscape. His paintings of the Madonna and Child include several variations of a composition that have a standing infant Jesus, which in viewpoint are repeated several times.
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