Bernardino Malpizzi, Man imploring a saint for the victims of the plague

Man imploring a saint for the victims of the plague

Bernardino Malpizzi

(Mantova 1553 - 1623)

  • Pen and brown ink, brown watercolour, white lead highlights over black pencil traces, on old blue paper
  • 258 x 238mm
  • Enrolled in the lower Ferrarese school Counterfounded in ancient times Porv. Ancient Sagredo collection, July 2103a Ancient collection of Mr. S not in Lugt Hubert De Marignane not in Lugt

The drawing finds compositional affinities with the series of stories of the evangelists painted for the oratory of San Lorenzino in the parish church of Pietole (Mantua) published by Sergio Marinelli (1) as attributed to Teodoro Ghisi but probably attributable to Malpizzi; in particular with the composition "Destruction of the Temple of Diana".

(1) Sergio Marinelli, Manierismo a Mantova, Milano 1998, pag 140 e 141, fig. 14

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