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Lot 62
  • 62

Agostino di Francesco Marti Born Lucca, active in the first half of the 16th Century

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Description

  • Agostino di Francesco Marti
  • Saint Sebastian
  • oil on panel

Exhibited

Mantua, Palazzo della Ragione, L'eredità di Isabella, Indagine sul collezionismo privato nelle terre gonzaghesche, September 20-October 27, 2002, cat. no. 16.

Literature

C. Micheli, in L'eredità di Isabella, Indagine sul collezionismo privato nelle terre gonzaghesche, exhibition catalogue, Manua 2002, cat. no. 16, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Agostino Marti was active in Lucca from about 1503 to 1543, and appears to have been a pupil of Michelangelo di Pietro Membrini (the former so-called "Master of the Lathrop Tondo"), with whom he appears to have collaborated early in his career.  An independent master by 1509, Marti began to receive commissions immediately and was able to start his own bottega soon after, taking as a pupil Zacchia the Elder, among others.  His early style reflects an awareness of Fra Bartolmmeo, whose works in Lucca continued to exert potent influence in that city.  The present panel, however, would appear to date to after 1520, when Marti began to turn to more Michelangelesque models for inspiration.

Marco Tanzi was the first to suggest the attributionof this Saint Sebastian to Marti at the time of the exhibition in Mantua (see Exhibited below).