Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi (active ca. 1467-ca. 1524)

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Study of a Young Man in Profile
ca. 1500
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Study of a Bearded Man in Profile
ca. 1500
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
St Peter and St John the Evangelist
ca. 1495-1505
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Risen Christ
ca. 1515
oil on panel
Fondazione Cavallini Sgarbi, Ferrara

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
St Mary Magdalen and St Martha (detail)
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Virgin and Child with St Sebastian
ca. 1500-1510
oil on panel
Galleria Estense, Modena

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Virgin and Child with Two Donors
ca. 1505
oil on panel
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Holy Family with St Lucy
1503
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin


Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Adoration of the Shepherds
ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Pala dei Barcaioli
ca. 1492
oil on panel
Chiesa di San Pietro Martire, Murano

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Pala dei Barcaioli (detail)
St John the Baptist and a Bishop Saint
ca. 1492
oil on panel
Chiesa di San Pietro Martire, Murano

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Christ washing the Feet of the Disciples
1500
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Virgin and Child with St Simeon and St Jerome
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Pan and Syrinx
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Pietà with St Jerome, St John the Evangelist,
the Virgin, and a Donor

before 1524
oil on panel
Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice

"Giovanni Agostino da Lodi's signature on a painting in Milan and on a drawing sold at Sotheby's in New York in 1986 were the first clues to rediscovering this important participant in Lombard art.  With these two firm documents, scholars have recently reconstructed this artist's life and work from paintings previously attributed to an artist known as Pseudo-Boccaccino, or Boccaccio Boccaccino of Cremona.  A 1504 receipt for payment to Lodi suggests that he may have lived in Venice for a time, and his many surviving paintings around Venice add evidence to this theory.  After returning to Lombardy, he painted numerous works there.  Giovanni Agostino da Lodi was also an outstanding draftsman.  His red chalk studies of heads, often mistaken for works by Leonardo da Vinci, constitute most of his surviving drawings.  Active in Lombardy and the Veneto, Lodi assimilated Leonardo's Milanese manner, along with Venetian colorism and Albrecht Dürer's Northern European art."

– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles