The Raising of Lazarus

Details

Marco Pino (1521-1583)
The Raising of Lazarus
oil on panel, unframed
40½ x 54in. (102.8 x 137cm.)

Provenance

Severino Spinelli, Florence; sale, Pesaro, Milan, 11-14 June 1928, lot 85, pl. XXIII, as Taddeo Zuccari; reoffered, Bellini, Florence, 23-26 April 1934, lot 55, pl. XIV, as Taddeo Zuccari.

Literature

R. Longhi, Precisioni nelle Gallerie Italiane: La Galleria Borghese, Vita Artistica, 1926-7 (subsequently reprinted in Pinacotheca, 1928, and in Opere Complete, II, Saggi e Ricerche 1925-1928, Florence, 1967, I, p. 351).
G. Briganti, Il Manierismo e Pellegrino Tibaldi, Rome, 1945, fig. 91.
F. Zeri, Pittura e Controriforma. L'"arte senza tempo" di Scipione da Gaeta, Turin, 1957, p. 38.
E. Borea, Grazia e furia in Marco Pino, Paragone, 151, 1962.
A. Zezza, Marco Pino da Siena (1521-1583), Naples University doctoral thesis, 1995, p. 194, no. 99.

Lot Essay

Andrea Zezza points out, loc. cit., that of the paintings by Marco Pino in private collections, the present work is that which has received the most critical attention. Catalogued by Georg Gronau, Mario Salmi and Giuseppe Fiocco for the Spinelli sale as a 'masterpiece' by Taddeo Zuccari, its true authorship was immediately recognized and published by Roberto Longhi, loc cit. Andrea Zezza has suggested a dating in the 1570s, during the artist's last period in Naples (private communication).

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