The two missing tondos: Romanino in Padua and the Edípeo enciclopedico

The accidental discovery in a private collection of two small tondos with the bust of a 'Deacon saint' and that of a 'Nun saint', with labels glued on the back of the frames bearing indications of their belonging to the Berlin collection of Adolf von Beckerath (1834-1915) – one of the greatest German collectors of Italian Renaissance art and member of the commission for the purchase of artworks for the Berlin museums – identifies them as those missing from the woodwork of the altarpiece executed in 1513-1514 by Girolamo Romanino for the high altar of the church of San Giustina in Padua, from 1866 in the Civic Museums of the Venetian city. Bernard Berenson had associated the panels with the altarpiece already in 1907, and although, fortunately, they had remained in a Berlin collection, it was later believed they had been lost during the Second World War. A clearer and more comprehensive description of the works is attempted here, with the identification of the two figures as Daniele and Felicita, two of the most venerated saints in Padua and, in particular, in the main abbey of the Cassinese Benedictines, where their remains had been found.

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Monica De Cesare Spartan Dioskouroi, Beotian Dioskouroi: some iconographic evidence
read abstract » pp. 2-11
Max Seidl Picasso and the 'O' of Giotto
read abstract » pp. 12-99
"La donna fo tutta turbata / (la raina incoronata!)": late-13th century Marian laudas and Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes in Montesiepi
read abstract » pp..100-103
Giampaolo Ermini "In mano di Mario". Unpublished documents and new information on Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Sienese goldsmiths of the Trecento
read abstract » pp. 104-121
Marco Tanzi The two missing tondos: Romanino in Padua and the Edípeo enciclopedico
read abstract » pp. 122-131
Paola Coniglio Recent studies on Giovandomenico Mazzolo
read abstract » pp. 132-156
Marco M. Mascolo An “ignoto corrispondente”, Lanzi and the gallery of Pommersfelden. On Roberto Longhi's emergence and development as an art scholar
read abstract » pp. 187-195