6
no lot
tempera on panel
h cm 31X36
Attribution and report by Dr. Francesca Campagna Cicala, director of the Regional Museum of Messina, dated November 23, 2002.
"The small predella in question seems to draw on Antonello's teachings, but translates them into a language that takes on an autonomous physiognomy, also participating in other cultural experiences.
With regard to Antonelli's legacy, the assimilation tends above all to capture the perspective virtuosity that is revealed not only in the spatial arrangement of the two figures, but also in the hand holding the stick, typically Antonellian in the fold of St. James's wimple traced by a comma of light, and in the hat hanging from the stick, elements all derived from Antonellian ideas pertaining above all to the master's youthful phase, to which the virtuosic drapery of the St. James's cloak also refers.
Analytical research and diagnostics carried out by Lionel Koening's CEDART, conservation and diagnostics of works of art in Florence.
Diagnostic tests performed:
1-Infrared investigations
a-reflectographic
b-black and white
2-Ray examination
a-state of conservation
b- analysis of the pictorial style
3-Chemical and stratigraphic analyses
"The small predella in question seems to draw on Antonello's teachings, but translates them into a language that takes on an autonomous physiognomy, also participating in other cultural experiences.
With regard to Antonelli's legacy, the assimilation tends above all to capture the perspective virtuosity that is revealed not only in the spatial arrangement of the two figures, but also in the hand holding the stick, typically Antonellian in the fold of St. James's wimple traced by a comma of light, and in the hat hanging from the stick, elements all derived from Antonellian ideas pertaining above all to the master's youthful phase, to which the virtuosic drapery of the St. James's cloak also refers.
Analytical research and diagnostics carried out by Lionel Koening's CEDART, conservation and diagnostics of works of art in Florence.
Diagnostic tests performed:
1-Infrared investigations
a-reflectographic
b-black and white
2-Ray examination
a-state of conservation
b- analysis of the pictorial style
3-Chemical and stratigraphic analyses