Sunday, February 7, 2016

Italian paintings in non-Italian museums, 16th century

attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Annunciation
1530s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mirabello Cavalori
Knight of Malta
1560s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dosso Dossi
Three Ages of Man
ca. 1515
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Three Ages of Man by Dosso Dossi (immediately above) enjoyed its 500th birthday last year, admired by multitudes located far from the region (in space) and even farther from the culture (in time) where it was conceived. All the paintings assembled here drifted away from Italy long ago and very far away from the Renaissance. They now passively serve foreign agendas which their creators would not have been able to recognize or comprehend.

Bartolomeo Neroni
Tuccia (Chastity) Carrying Water in a Sieve
mid-16th century
Victoria & Albert Museum

Sebastiano del Piombo
Pope Clement VII
ca. 1531
Getty

attributed to Sebastiano del Piombo
Madonna & Child with Saints & Donors
16th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scipione Pulzone
Lamentation
1593
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giovanni Francesco Rustici
Conversion of St. Paul
ca. 1525
Victoria & Albert Museum

Paolo Veronese
Portrait of Alessandro Vittoria
ca. 1580
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paolo Veronese
Boy with Greyhound
1570s
Metropolitan Museum of Art
(gift of Louisine Havemeyer)

Giovanni Bellini & Workshop
Madonna & Child with Saints
ca. 1510
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jacopo Tintoretto
Doge Alvise Mocenigo Presented to the Redeemer
ca. 1577
Metropolitan Museum of Art