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LORENZO PASINELLI (Bologna, 1629 - 1700) Annunciation Oil on…
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Lot no. 73
Estimate: €3,000 - €5,000
Sale date : 11/25/2025 at 2:15 PM
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LORENZO PASINELLI (Bologna, 1629 - 1700) Annunciation Oil on canvas, 97X69 cm Provenance: London, Sotheby's, 8 December 2011, lot 131 The canvas can be compared with a sketch that the artist made during his late activity and that critics have related to the lost altarpiece intended for the high altar of the church of the Monache Scalze in Bologna and that, unfinished, was lost (cf. L. Peruzzi, in Dipinti e disegni emiliani dal Manierismo al neoclassico, Fondantico, edited by Daniele Benati, Bologna 1997, pp. 40-42, no. 8). News of the 'sketched' altarpiece is reported to us by Giovan Pietro Zanotti in 1703, also mentioning the existence of 'a first idea' (cf. G. P. Zanotti, storia dell'Accademia clementina, Bologna 1739, I, p. 308) and Marcello Oretti recalls a 'small painting with a beautiful Nonciata with an angel' in his son's house (cf. M. Oretti, Descrizione delle pitture che ornano le case de' cittadini della Città di Bologna, late 18th century, Bologna Biblioteca Comunale, ms. B109, c. 26). Having said this, the existence of a monochrome painting of the same subject, but resolved in a different manner (formerly London, Heim Gallery), may suggest that Pasinelli, given the importance of the undertaking, conceived several preparatory studies, a possible fact given the 'simultaneity' of Oretti's citation with the inventory of the possessions of the cardinal-legate Fabrizio Serbelloni of 1758 and 1769, in which an Annunciation by Pasinelli is mentioned. Thus, the oval presented here can be thought of as preparatory to the lost altarpiece of the Monache Scalze. The work is accompanied by a critical card by Daniele Benati. Reference bibliography: C. Baroncini, Pasinelli, Faenza 1993, ad vocem
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