Andrea Sabatini, called Andrea da Salerno (Salerno c. 1480-1530/1 Gaeta)

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 3, 10, 30, 40-42, 51 & 124-132)

Andrea Sabatini, called Andrea da Salerno (Salerno c. 1480-1530/1 Gaeta)

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Details

Andrea Sabatini, called Andrea da Salerno (Salerno c. 1480-1530/1 Gaeta)
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
on gold ground panel
21¼ x 17 1/8 in. (54 x 44.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 January 1980, lot 31.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 June 1982, lot 105 ($32,000). Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 1985, lot 35.
Anonymous sale [Property of a Private Collector]; Sotheby's, New York, 11 January 1990, lot 126 ($52,250 to the present owners).

Literature

P. Leone de Castris, 'La pittura del Cinquecento nell'Italia meridionale', in La pittura in Italia. Il Cinquecento, R. Contini and C. Ginetti, eds., Venice, 1992, II, pp. 479 and 481, fig. 730, as 'Giovan Filippo Criscuolo'.

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Lot Essay

The most celebrated Southern artist of the Cinquecento, Andrea Sabatini is better known as Andrea da Salerno, where he was born in c. 1480. Little is known about his activity before 1511-2, by which time he was already clearly aware of Raphael's Stanze and of the Lombard and Roman culture of Cesare da Sesto. His style was further enriched by the arrival of Da Sesto in Naples, along with Pedro Machuca. Amongst his most important patrons were the Benedictines, in Cava dei Tirreni, Naples, and in the Abbey of Montecassino, where he painted several altarpiece. After his death in 1530, some of his unfinished commission were completed by his brother-in-law Severo Ierace and by Giovan Filippo Criscuolo, to whom this painting has also been attributed (Leone de Castris, op. cit.). The exhibition Andrea da Salerno nel Rinascimento meridionale: Certosa di San Lorenzo (Salerno, 1986) added greatly to our understanding of artistic developments in Southern Italy during the Cinquecento.

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