Cima, Giovanni Battista (c. 1459–c. 1517)

Italian painter. His use of colour was distinctive and he often set his Madonnas against a landscape: his Virgin and Child used his native town and its castle as the background. His work resembles that of Giovanni Bellini, whose studio foreman he is said to have been.

Cima was a prolific artist, and there are paintings by him in various churches in Venice and a number of galleries, including Milan, Munich, Dresden, the Louvre, and the National Gallery, London.