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Giacomo Negretti, called Palma il Giovane
Description
- Giacomo Negretti, called Palma Il Giovane
- The assumption
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Cardinal Decio Azzolino (1623-89), Rome;
Don Livio Odescalchi, Castello di Bracciano;
Eduard Safarik Collection, Rome, from 1976;
Accquired by the present owner September 2002.
Exhibited
Literature
E.A. Safarik, The Melancholy of Venice. 17th-century paintings from the Luigi Koelliker collection, Milan, previously the Eduard Safarik collection, exhibition catalogue, Salzburg 2003, pp. 62-65, cat. no. 10.
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This beautiful Assumption has been dated by Mason Rinaldi (see Literature) to circa 1590, perhaps the most successful period of Palma's long career. The last of the great Venetian mannerists, Palma here displays many of the stylistic techniques he inherited from Tintoretto. The focus around a strong central movement can be compared to a Resurrection, in the church of San Zulian, Venice1 and Mason Rinaldi compares the positioning of the disciples and the fine use of foreshortening to a Crucifixion from circa 1589-90 in the church of Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Ascoli Piceno.2
1. Mason Rinaldi, under Literature, p. 134, cat. no. 495, reproduced p. 212, plate 69.
2. Idem, p. 110 cat. no 277, reproduced p. 225, plate 100.