CIMA, GIAMBATTISTA (CIMA DE CONEGLIANO C. 1459 1517), Italian painter of the Venetian school, probably a pupil of Bartolomeo Montagna, and later influenced by Giovanni Bellini. He was born at Conegliano on the southern slopes of the Alps. His earliest dated picture is the altarpiece of 1489 in the Museo Civico of Vicenza. He was then 3o years old and his style is fully developed and altered very little during the course of his long life. In 1492 he settled in Venice. In 1493 he was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for the cathedral of Conegliano which is still in its original place. Most of his important works are in Venice in the churches of S. Giovanni in Bragora, S. Maria dell'Orto, the Carmine, and in the Academy; there are also pictures by him at Bologna, Modena and Parma and in many of the great galleries in Europe.
See V. Botteon, Ricerche intorno alla vita e alle opere di G. Cima (2893); R. Burckhardt, Cima da Conegliano (19o5).