Rivelazioni - the restored art works

Thanks to the Donors who have contributed to the Rivelazioni-Finance For Fine Arts project, three other artworks from Pinacoteca di Brera collection have been restored and returned to their original splendor for collective enjoyment.
The artworks will be exposed in BIG - Borsa Italiana Gallery until July 2017.  

 

THE MAGDALENE
Oil on panel, 70x56 cm
Giovan Pietro Rizzoli called The Giampietrino (Milan 1495 – 1549)  
Restored with the support of DOC Generici - ELITE Company

 This is one of the best among the many versions of the Magdalene painted by the artist and his workshop; the same model, with the Saint with her arms crossed on his chest, is replicated in similar works of art housed in the Alte Pinacothek in Munich and the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Privately-commissioned panels depicting saints, but also ancient gods and heroines with sophisticated, erotic connotations, were a highly significant part of Giampietrino’s activity. Having begun his career in the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci (his early works are particularly close to Marco d’Oggiono), Giampietrino became one of the leading representatives of the long-lived Leonardesque tradition, even into Milan’s Spanish Era.

 

 

 

THE ASSUMPTION OF THE MAGDALENE
Oil on panel, 146x103 cm
Marco D'Oggiono (Oggiono 1475 – Milan 1524)
Restored with the support of L'Uomo Vogue

 The painting has been known since 1909 when it appeared at the auction of the collection of the Duke of Aosta at the Galleria Sangiorgi in Turin. Removed to Germany during the Nazi occupation, it was recovered in 1954 and deposited at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and assigned in 1989 to the Pinacoteca di Brera. It is one of the most remarkable works by Marco d’Oggiono, a direct student of Leonardo in the last years of the fifteenth century and subsequently among the most successful painters in Milan. Scholars have suggested that the work’s Northern–looking landscape was completed by another painter, recalling Patinir or Henri Met de Bles, known as Civetta.

 

 

 

 

MADONNA OF HUMILITY
Oil on panel, 54x41 cm
Attribuited to the Master of the Sforza Altarpiece (Milan 1490 - 1520)
Restored with the support of WIIT - ELITE Company

 The small panel, from the collection of engineer Luigi Bernasconi and shown at the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition of 1939,has been attributed to the Master of the Sforza Altarpiece by Pietro Marani. The Virgin’s blue robe shows traces of gold or embossed decorations and a layer of red lake over mordant gilding, oncoised with a star motif. The chronology of this Master has only one fixed point, the Sforza Altarpiece in the Brera Gallery, originally in the Franciscan church of Sant’Ambrogio ad Nemus, its history recently clarified by newly-discovered archival documents proving that the altarpiece was still not ready in January 1495, and that it must have been by the second half of that year after the investiture of Duke Ludovico and the birth of his second son Francesco, who is shown among the family kneeling before the Virgin and Doctors of the Church.

 

 

 

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