The Bassano `Christ the Redeemer' in the Giustiniani collection
2000; Burlington Magazine Publications; Volume: 142; Issue: 1173 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2044-9925
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Architecture Studies
ResumoTHE isolation in open countryside of Vincenzo Giustiniani's church of S. Vincenzo Martire at Bassano Romano (Figs. 13 and 21) has meant that the marble Christ it houses (Fig. 14) has escaped the notice of scholars. Articles published in 1957 on buildings constructed by Vincenzo Giustiniani passed over the statue in silence, even though at that date it was prominently visible on the high altar,' before being transferred in 1979 to a small sacristy to the left of the choir, where I discovered it a few years ago. I was then able to relate the statue to an entry in the post-mortem inventory of the sculptures of marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani drawn up in 1638, and published it in this Magazine in 1998 as an early seventeenthcentury derivation of Michelangelo's Minerva Christ.2 The observation made by Irene Baldriga of a black vein on the face of Christ has caused us to modify that opinion, and to suggest that the sculpture may be identifiable, for the reasons she outlines above, as the first version of the Minerva Christ, heavily reworked by a later hand.3 In the context of Baldriga's publication of that hypothesis, I should like to add here some further information about the sculpture in the Giustiniani collection, to trace its arrival at Bassano, and to make some observations about its iconography. In Vincenzo Giustiniani's 'Inventario delle statue' of 1638
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