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Immacolata con il Bambino
Artist: Bartolomeo di David
Current location: Museo d'Arte Sacra della Val d'Arbia
Original location: Santi Pietro e Paolo
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
At the top of the composition are the four Prophets: (from left) Solomon, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and David. Below are the four Fathers of the Church: Gregory, Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome. Standing, probably Joachim and Anne. Kneeling, a Franciscan saint (Anthony of Padua?) and a bishop saint, recently recognized as Saint Anselm of Aosta. Carli (1773, BCS C.VII.10, c. 19v.) also mentions a predella, now lost, believed to be by Peruzzi, which was broken up into small panels and sold to the Azzoni family. Regarding the various attributions, Perini attributes the painting to Giacomo Pacchiarotti, Brogi suggests Girolamo del Pacchia, Massari Riccio, and Metz Domenico Beccafumi. Regarding the dating, Bisogni proposes this altarpiece as one of the various works commemorating the victory of the battle of Camollia (1526), the merit of which was attributed to the Immaculate Conception, and mentioning the panel by Giovanni di Lorenzo Cini in S. Martino, which celebrates the same event and is dated 1528, suggests a closeness to this one. Instead, Sricchia-Santoro, supported by Bagnoli, objects that the complex theological framework of the panel, its peripheral location, and the lack of reference to the battle of Camollia suggest a connection with the subsequent events of the 1530s, influenced by the direct presence of Peruzzi.
Immacolata con il Bambino