Teramo Piaggio* (active 1532-c. 1554)

Details

Teramo Piaggio* (active 1532-c. 1554)

The Marriage of the Virgin

oil on panel--a predella
14 3/8 x 32¾in (36.8 x 83.2cm.)

Provenance

Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, and by descent.

Literature

J. Pope-Hennessy, Some Aspects of the Cinquecento in Siena, Art in America, XXXI, 1943, pp. 63-77, fig. 2.
J. Cornforth, Old Masters Revealed, Country Life, XX, June 20, 1963, pp. 1494-5, fig. 1 as Girolamo del Pacchia.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 1968, I, p. 307 as Girolamo del Pacchia.
N. Dacos, Peruzzi dalla Farnesina alla Cancelleria: qualche proposta sulla bottega del pittore, in Baldassarre Peruzzi, pittura scena e architettura nel Cinquecento, 1987, p. 483, fig. 10 as Brescianino.
J. Pope-Hennessy, Learning to Look, 1991, p. 317.

Lot Essay

An old label on the reverse in Dame Una Pope-Hennessy's hand reads 'painting on thick panel 'Il Sposalizio' belonged to my Mother and Father and ascribed by latter to Pintorrichio'

We are grateful to Andrea di Marchi and Everett Fahy for the attribution.