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Lot Essay
Professor Colin Slim has identified the music as the opening nine breves of the cantus part to 'S'altra fiamma giamai m'arse, madonna, il core', a madrigal composed by the Florentine Giovanni Animuccia (c. 1500-1571), which was not published until 1551 in Animuccia's Il secondo libro dei madigali a cinque voci, suggesting either that the piece was known in Florentine musical circles some years before its publication, or that it was received by the artist from the composer himself. 'By revealing the madrigal's amorous text and depicting folds in the sheet of music, the artist suggests that the young man has just received from a lady friend or is about to send to her this musical message' (Slim, op. cit., p. 404).
The traditional attribution is to Francesco Salviati, but his contemporary, Jacopino del Conte, was suggested in 1989. Jacone, the outline of whose biography is recorded by Vasari, was a pupil of Andrea del Sarto, and worked in 1536 in association with Pontormo. His Sartesque phase is represented by the altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with four saints in the Madonna del Calcinaio, Cortona.
The traditional attribution is to Francesco Salviati, but his contemporary, Jacopino del Conte, was suggested in 1989. Jacone, the outline of whose biography is recorded by Vasari, was a pupil of Andrea del Sarto, and worked in 1536 in association with Pontormo. His Sartesque phase is represented by the altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with four saints in the Madonna del Calcinaio, Cortona.