Mastering Materials: The Collection of Joel M. Goldfrank
Orazio Samacchini
The Holy Family
Auction Closed
May 22, 04:37 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mastering Materials: The Collection of Joel M. Goldfrank
Orazio Samacchini
Bologna 1532 - 1577
The Holy Family
oil on copper, in an ornately carved and gilt frame
copper: 16 ⅜ by 11 ¾ in.; 41.6 by 29.8 cm
framed: 21 by 16 ½ in.; 53.3 by 42 cm
Private Collection, France;
With Dickinson, London, 2008;
From whom acquired by the late collector.
Though Orazio Samacchini spent most of his career in and around his native Bologna, in 1563 he contributed to the decoration of the Sala Regia in the Vatican Palace. His work therefore reflects the influence of artists like Raphael and Michelangelo, as well as those he worked alongside in Rome like Federico Zuccaro and Francesco Salviati, but his color palette and sense of light reveal his roots further north.
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