Portrait of Don Baldassarre di Antonio di Angelo – Galleria dell’Accademia – Florence
The painting was originally to be placed en pendant, together with the Portrait of Don Biagio Milanesi, in the lower part of the Vallombrosa Altarpiece,
The painting was originally to be placed en pendant, together with the Portrait of Don Biagio Milanesi, in the lower part of the Vallombrosa Altarpiece,
The small painting was part of an unidentified predella, probably executed after a commission from the Franciscan sphere, given the scene on the background showing
The Assumption was part of a complex altar machine, then dismembered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, commissioned in 1488 by Don Biagio Milanesi
The work was originally embedded in the large wooden altar machine commissioned to Baccio d’Agnolo around 1500 for the high altar of the church of
The table is recorded in the Tribuna degli Uffizi in the inventory of 1635, and according to critics it was probably conceived to be placed
The table is an almost identical copy of the one signed by Perugino and kept in Vienna, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum: the only differences between
The Lamentation over Dead Christ in 1509 was mentioned at the church of Santa Chiara in Florence, placed above the second altar on the right;
The saint is identifiable with Mary Magdalene only thanks to the gold inscription on the edge of the dress, consisting of a fashionable bodice, green
The identity of the boy is unknown: on the back of the panel, a long writing almost completely abraded recalls the painting as an effigy
The painting has been part of the collection of Cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici, and it was attributed to the hand of Raphael in the past;
