Raffaelino MOTTA DA REGGIO (1550-1578) - Lot 45

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Raffaelino MOTTA DA REGGIO (1550-1578) - Lot 45
Raffaelino MOTTA DA REGGIO (1550-1578) Study for a mural fresco with a central cartouche depicting Mucius Scævola before Porsenna Pen with brown ink, blue and light brown wash, pasted in full on a 17th-century blue mount with framing fillet, annotated lower left f. Salviati. Height 16.9 cm Width: 20.4 cm Provenance Milan, Sabatelli collection R. Varni, Milan sale, June 1976, cat. no. 234, reproduced on pl. VI France, private collection. Note: From 1569 onwards, R. Motta, based in Rome, was to work under the direction of F. Zuccaro on various fresco decorations for Grottaferrata, then for the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, and the Palazzo Gambara in Bagnaia. This unpublished drawing dates from this period of decorating activity, and should be compared with two others in Palermo from the Padre Resta collection. Bibliography Al. Alessi, Raffaelino da Reggio e la decorazione dei lavori pittorici nelle palazinna Gambara a Bagnaia, Bolletino d'Arte 128, 2004, p.39-74. Simonetta Prosperi Valenti, I disegni del Codice Resta di Palermo, Silvana ed. 2007, n°44a, p.104-105 rep. and n°166b, p.224-225 rep.
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