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Lot Essay
THE PRESENT SHEET IS POSSIBLY RELATED TO THE BACKGROUND SCENE IN THE LUNETTE OF SAINT BERNARDINO HEALING A BOY WOUNDED BY A BULL, PAINTED BY SALIMBENI AROUND 1602 IN THE LOWER ROOM OF THE ORATORIO DI SAN BERNARDINO, SIENA. A COMPOSITIONAL STUDY FOR THE LUNETTE, IN THE UFFIZI, SHOWS THE RELATION BETWEEN THE BACKGROUND SCENE OF THE BOY BEEING WOUNDED, AS THE HORRIFIED SPECTATORS FLEE, AND THE FOREGROUND SCENE OF SAINT BERNARDINO HEALING THE BOY, P.A. RIEDL, DISEGNI DEI BAROCCESCHI SENESI (FRANCESCO VANNI E VENTURA SALIMBENI), EXHIB. CAT., GABINETTO DISEGNI E STAMPE DEGLI UFFIZI, FLORENCE, 1976, NO. 98, ILLUSTRATED. A CARTOON BY SALIMBENI FOR THE SCENE IN THE FOREGROUND WAS SOLD IN THESE ROOMS, 1 JULY 1997, LOT 27.
IN APRIL OF 1567 FRANCESCO VANNI'S MOTHER, WHO HAD BEEN WIDOWED SHORTLY AFTER FIRST MARRIAGE, MARRIED THE PAINTER ARCANGELO SALIMBENI. BOTH FRANCESCO VANNI AND HIS HALF-BROTHER, VENTURA SALIMBENI, BEGAN THEIR ARTISTIC TRAINING IN THE WORKSHOP OF ARCANGELO AND IT IS, THEREFORE, NOT UNNATURAL THAT THEIR STYLES SHOULD SOMETIMES OVERLAP. THE PRESENT SHEET THUS PROVIDES AN INTERESTING LESSON IN THE CONNOISSEURSHIP OF VANNI'S DRAWINGS, FOR, IN SPITE OF ITS INSCRIPTION AND CERTAIN STYLISTIC AFFINITIES, IT IS THE WORK OF VENTURA SALIMBENI.
IN APRIL OF 1567 FRANCESCO VANNI'S MOTHER, WHO HAD BEEN WIDOWED SHORTLY AFTER FIRST MARRIAGE, MARRIED THE PAINTER ARCANGELO SALIMBENI. BOTH FRANCESCO VANNI AND HIS HALF-BROTHER, VENTURA SALIMBENI, BEGAN THEIR ARTISTIC TRAINING IN THE WORKSHOP OF ARCANGELO AND IT IS, THEREFORE, NOT UNNATURAL THAT THEIR STYLES SHOULD SOMETIMES OVERLAP. THE PRESENT SHEET THUS PROVIDES AN INTERESTING LESSON IN THE CONNOISSEURSHIP OF VANNI'S DRAWINGS, FOR, IN SPITE OF ITS INSCRIPTION AND CERTAIN STYLISTIC AFFINITIES, IT IS THE WORK OF VENTURA SALIMBENI.