ALTOBELLO MELONE. COMPIANT ON DEAD CHRIST
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12/03/2019 - 05/05/2019: Humanistic/artistic cultural events Exhibitions
Nothing is known of the origin of this painting, arrived after the Napoleonic suppressions in the Archiepiscopal Picture Gallery and generally not visible to the public. The work is unanimously referred to by the critic to the Cremonese painter Altobello Melone (Cremona 1490/91- before 1543), formed between his native city and Venice, and active mainly in Brescia, where he is confronted with the painting of Romanino, and in Cremona, where he works, among other things, at the important cycle of the Cathedral at the end of 1516. Behind this decorative enterprise, the large table shown here must also be referred to: characteristics of this phase are in fact the vibrant chromatic ignitions, and the dense dough, with almost incandescent effects of obvious Titian derivation. Compared to the Lamentation by Romanino, once kept in the church of San Lorenzo in Brescia (now Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia), taken up by Altobello in another version now in Brera (around 1510), in the table of the Archbishopric the artist shows an evident opening to the influences of northern European painting, from which derives the dramatic and expressive excitement of the figures. In particular, we find a precise revival of the central part of the painting from the scene of a similar subject engraved by Dürer in the Little Passion of 1509-11. A dark and iridescent landscape forms the background for the excited and crowded scene.
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Where: MUSEO DIOCESANO CARLO MARIA MARTINI
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