Name: GIROLAMO DENTI, CALLED GIROLAMO DI TIZIANO (?VENICE C. 1510-C. 1572)
Brand: The Madonna and Child with Saint James and Saint Lucy
Price: 19000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

GIROLAMO DENTI, CALLED GIROLAMO DI TIZIANO (?VENICE C. 1510-C. 1572)
The Madonna and Child with Saint James and Saint Lucy
oil on canvas
57¹⁄₈ x 50¹⁄₂ in. (145.2 x 128.3 cm.)

Unidentified cloister, Bergamo, until c. 1914, when acquired by the following.
Private collection, Vienna.
with Frascotti Gallery, Vienna.
Mr. Saul Ettinger, Montreal, from 1969, by whom donated to the Saint James the Apostle Anglican Church, Montreal.

E. Schaffran, 'Ein Altarbild des Lorenzo Lotto, Die Weltkunst, 1 July 1952, as Lorenzo Lotto.
O. Benesch, 'A Late Work by Lorenzo Lotto', Studies in the History of Art, London, 1959, pp. 240-243, fig. 2, as Lorenzo Lotto.
O. Benesch, 'A Late Work by Lorenzo Lotto', Otto Benesch: Collected Writings, II, London, 1971, p. 134, fig. 119, as Lorenzo Lotto.
R. Palluchini and G.M. Canova, L'opera completa di Lotto, Milan, 1975, p. 125, no. 404, as Lorenzo Lotto.
S. Claut, “All’ombra di Tiziano contributo per Girolamo Denti”, Antichità viva, XXV, no. 5-6, September-December 1986, p. 19.
S. Claut, "Denti, Girolamo", Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, updated and revised 31 March 2000.

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We are grateful to Mauro Lucco for identifying this Sacra conversazione as a work by the Girolamo Denti, an Italian artist who was Titian's most prominent assistant (written communication, 6 September 2016). Lucco compares the painting to Denti's altarpiece at Sant'Elpidio a Mare and his Two Saints in the Museo Vetrario di Murano, indicating that the present work dates to the middle of the 1560s. At this time, Denti had two distinct working styles. The first was employed for projects that he was managing in Titian's workshop, while the second was reserved for independent commissions such as the present work. According to Schaffran (loc. cit.), this altarpiece was displayed in a cloister in Bergamo until around 1914, when it was acquired by a private collector in Vienna.