AGNOLO DI DOMENICO DEL MAZZIERE, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE MASTER OF SANTO SPIRITO | THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

Possibly, Ferdinando de’ Medici (1549-1609), according to a wax seal on the reverse;

Art market, Rome, by 1991 (according to the Fototeca Zeri);

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 21 April 2015, lot 201 (as Central Italian School, 15th Century);

There acquired by the present owner. 

This work appears to be a predella panel from an unknown altarpiece by Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere, formerly known as the Master of Santo Spirito. Another fragment of this altarpiece showing the Flagellation is in the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon.¹

We are grateful to Frank Dabell for identifying one of the wax seals on the reverse of the panel. One of the two represents a large queen bee beneath a crown surrounded by numerous other smaller bees. Mr. Dabell has identified this emblem as having belonged to Ferdinando de’ Medici (1549-1609). A similar wax seal can be found today on the reverse of Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (inv. no. 1952.5.56).

1. Inv. no. MI 588, panel, 21 by 53 cm. 

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