The 'Resurrection of Christ' by Guillaume Bonoyseau from Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti in Rome and the French connection for Francesco Salviati

Alessandro Angelini
The provenance from Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti in Rome of a panel painting representing the 'Resurrection of Christ', which in terms of iconography and style derives from Francesco Salviati's fresco masterpiece in the chapel of the Margrave of Brandenburg in Santa Maria dell'Anima, reopens the much-debated question of the chronology of the work executed by the great Florentine painter on that worksite (see the article by Roberto Bartalini in the present issue). Due to evident stylistic similarities, the panel painting can be compared to a series of works, particularly frescoes, which in terms of attribution have long been disputed among various exponents of the second generation of Roman Mannerism, such as the painter from Lucca, Michele Grechi (Bernice Davidson), or Pompeo Cesura from L'Aquila. The recent identification of a painter from Lyon, Guillaume Bonoyseau, as the author of a series of works mostly commissioned by ambassadors or French prelates stationed in Rome, emerging on the basis of irrefutable documentary evidence (Tosini), now makes it possible to attribute to this brilliant French disciple of Salviati also the 'Resurrection' from Palazzo Ricci. This conclusion about its attribution also prompts further considerations on the relations between Francesco Salviati and the École de Fontainebleau in the mid-1550s, when the artist turned his hand to the frescoes of Palazzo Ricci in Rome.

Index

Anna Maria Riccomini e Fabrizio Paolucci "In la vale". About Girolamo da Carpi and the Della Valle and Medici sculptures
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Bruna Bianco Saint Peter's chapel in Naples cathedral and the problem of Montano d'Arezzo: proposal for a revision
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Stefano L’Occaso On the tracks of the Dalle Masegne brothers in Mantua: the cathedral façade and the Tomb monument of Margherita Malatesta
read abstract » pp. 49-64
Giulio Dalvit Vecchietta's Arliquiera: programme, function, and context
read abstract » pp. 65-99
Michela Zurla From Genoa to Berlin passing through Florence: Wilhelm Bode, Stefano Bardini and the auction of the Santo Varni collection
read abstract » pp. 100-128
Roberto Bartalini Francesco Salviati in the chapel of the Margrave of Brandenburg in Santa Maria dell'Anima
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Alessandro Angelini The 'Resurrection of Christ' by Guillaume Bonoyseau from Palazzo Ricci Sacchetti in Rome and the French connection for Francesco Salviati
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Agostino Allegri e Giovanni Renzi Cremona on the Danube. First look at a handful of the 16th-century drawings in Bratislava
read abstract » pp. 159-178
Tomaso Montanari A new 'Portrait of a young man' by Gian Lorenzo Bernini the painter
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Jacopo Stoppa Georges de la Tour at the time of Coronavirus
read abstract » pp. 183-188