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RICCARDO QUARTARARO (attr. to)
(Sciacca, 1443 - Palermo, 150…
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Lot no. 69
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RICCARDO QUARTARARO (attr. to)
(Sciacca, 1443 - Palermo, 1506)
St James the Greater
Oil on panel, 47.5X50.5 cm
Provenance:
Rome, Finarte, 16 October 2007, lot 503
Vienna, Dorotheum, 15 December 2023, lot 3 (as 16th-century Spanish School)
Milan, private collection
The panel was referred to Riccardo Quartararo by Ferdinando Bologna and was part of a polyptych of which the panels depicting St. Augustine were saved, which was auctioned at Finarte in Rome on 28 May 2024, where two other pieces depicting St. James the Greater and St. Monica were also auctioned at Finarte on 16 October 2007, lot 503. All of these panels, in addition to the evidence of style, present the same gold background decoration and the Iberian character is dictated by the supposed stay in Valencia in 1472 suggested by Bologna (Bologna, 1977, pp. 161-169), a stay that is now questioned by critics (Pugliatti, 1998, p. 27). Having said this, in addition to his Sicilian activity, Quartaro was in Naples between 1491 and 1492 and of his remains the Saint John the Baptist between Saints John the Evangelist and Jerome, and, above, the Madonna and Child commissioned by the prior of the church of San Giovanni a Mare which, preserved in the Capodimonte storerooms in very poor condition, is one of the few certain works that allow us to reconstruct the painter's artistic physiognomy after leaving his Sicilian premises behind.
Reference bibliography:
F. Bologna, Napoli e le rotte mediterranee della pittura, da Alfonso il Magnanimo a Ferdinando il Cattolico, Naples 1977, ad vocem
T. Pugliatti, Pittura del Cinquecento in Sicilia, II, La Sicilia occidentale. 1484-1577, Naples 1998, pp. 21-47, 57-59 tables I-III, and notes (pp. 302-306)
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