POSSIBLY CARPI, DATED 1705

This striking scagliola panel, which probably originally formed an altar frontal, with richly scrolling foliage and flowers framing a central cartouche (now redecorated in the case of this example), relates to other similar scagliola panels from the Carpi region. Examples in the Chiese Parrochiale, Quartirolo and the Chiese Parrochiale, Soliera, both the work of the scagliolisti Giovanni Pozzuoli and Giovanni Massa, are ilustrated in D. Colli et. al., La Scagliola Carpigiana e l'Illusione Barocca, Modena, 1990, pp. 167 and 187, while another related example by Ludovico Leoni (Carpi 1637-Cremona 1727), in the Chiesa di S. Francesco, Parma, is illustrated in G. Manni, I Maestri della Scagliola In Emilia Romagna e Marche, Modena, 1997, p. 136, fig. 134.