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Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)  (Italian, Vercelli 1477–1549 Siena)

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 5/8 x 23 1/4 in. (60 x 59.1 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde, in memory of his parents, Karl and Elisa Lunde, 1996
Accession Number:
1996.261

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 609

  • Gallery Label

    Sodoma was trained in Lombardy, but most of his career was spent in Siena, where he was, together with Beccafumi, the major figure. This work dates from the last decade of his life. The use of contrasting figure types and sfumato derives from his study of the works of Leonardo da Vinci and has a powerfully emotive effect. The turbaned figure is Pilate, who presents the resigned but dignified Christ to the viewer as an object of contemplation.

    Though cut down, the late-sixteenth-century frame is of fine quality.

  • Catalogue Entry

    Forthcoming

  • Provenance

    [Giovanni Battista Camuccini, Palazzo Cesi, Rome, by about 1851–53; ms. cat., about 1851, room 3, no. 6, as "Gesù presentato al Popolo," by Gio. Paolo Lomazzo; sold to Northumberland]; Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, Northumberland House, London, later Alnwick Castle (from 1853); [Agnew, London, until 1969; sold to Lunde]; Asbjorn R. Lunde, New York, later Riverdale, N.Y. (1969–96)

  • References

    Tito Barberi. Catalogo ragionato della Galleria Camuccini in Roma. [ca. 1851], room 3, picture no. 6 [manuscript copies in the archive of the Camuccini heirs at Cantalupo and in the Alnwick Castle Archives], as "Gesù presentato al Popolo," by Gio. Paolo Lomazzo.

    Keith Christiansen in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1996–1997." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 55 (Fall 1997), p. 27, ill. (color), attributes it to Sodoma and dates it to the last decade of his career.



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