{"id":5935,"date":"2012-06-21T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=5935"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:24:13","slug":"rp-06","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/rp-06\/","title":{"rendered":"RP.6 Madonna and Child in a Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RP.6 Madonna and Child<\/p><\/div>\n

Florence, Uffizi, no. 1890.8309 (on loan to Arezzo, Museo Communale).<\/p>\n

Panel, 83 x 63.<\/p>\n

Fig.RP.6a<\/a>
\nFig.RP.6b<\/a> detail, landscape<\/p>\n

A depressed area with a very clear edge appears left of the center of the Virgin\u2019s face, extends from over her right brow and downward at the left, then turns back across the landscape and terminates on her chest just above the edge of her dress, suggesting a change in the position of her head.\u00a0 (Bologna and Causa, 1952, see below, indicated that an x-ray shows another face under the visible one).\u00a0 Similar evidence on the surface of the painting is visible from the Virgin\u2019s right hand, across the thigh of the Child and ending just below the left hand of the Virgin, clearly indicating a passage of drapery was originally painted here.\u00a0 The changes that were made seem to be part of the original state of the picture.\u00a0 In general the condition of the painting seems fair although the paint surface is much corroded and flaking in the darkest areas.\u00a0 The Virgin\u2019s face seems repainted from the chin to the ear.<\/p>\n

The Madonna\u2019s upper garment is a slightly orange red going to very pale pink.\u00a0 Yellow ochre decorative band at the neckline, with a white undergarment seen just above it also visible at the wrist.\u00a0 Her skirt is sea green becoming bleached at the knee; the decorative border is yellow ochre.\u00a0 Her head scarf is very gray brushed with pink, with a yellow ochre edge.\u00a0 The color of the drapery under the Virgin\u2019s right hand is similar to that of her head scarf but a somewhat darker blue gray, again with a yellow ochre edge.\u00a0 The drapery under her left hand, which would seem to be part of the drapery under her right hand, has a greenish cast.\u00a0 Her hair is tan.\u00a0 The Child\u2019s body seems to have a light gray underpainting.\u00a0 The cheeks, ears, and fingers of the figures are pink as are the toes and knee of the Child.\u00a0 The roofs are pinkish.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

A. M. Ciaranfi, \u201cAlcune opere del Beccafumi,\u201d Bullettino Senese di Storia Patria<\/em>, V, 1934, 1-12, as Beccafumi.<\/p>\n

Barocchi, 1950, 254, recorded that Becherucci had told her of the picture in the Uffizi storerooms as by Rosso.<\/p>\n

Longhi, 1951, 59 (1976, 99), as Rosso, as a replica of his picture in the Borghese in Rome, and as exhibited in Arezzo since around 1940.<\/p>\n

Bologna and Causa, 1952, 3-4, no. 1, Pl. 1, as Rosso.<\/p>\n

Bertini, 1952, 147, 148, Fig., as Rosso.<\/p>\n

Longhi, 1953, 8, as Rosso, and as done shortly before the Borghese picture of around 1514.<\/p>\n

Briganti, 1953, 51-52, as Rosso.<\/p>\n

Baldini, in Mostra del Pontormo<\/em>, 1956, 125, no. 155, Pl. 94, as Rosso, accepting Longhi\u2019s attribution and dating.<\/p>\n

Oertel, 1956, 218, the attribution to Rosso hypothetical.<\/p>\n

Sanminiatelli, 1956, 241, as Rosso.<\/p>\n

Gamba, 1957, 7-9, 12, Fig. 2, as by Antonio di Donnino.<\/p>\n

Shearman, 1957, II, 214, n. 2, as by Beccafumi, who also did the picture in the Borghese.<\/p>\n

Barocchi, 1958, 236, questioned the attribution to Rosso, finding the landscape perhaps not ascribable to his hand.<\/p>\n

Berti, 1961, 35, 62, Fig., as attributed to Rosso around 1514 and related to the picture in the Borghese.<\/p>\n

Luciano Berti, in Pittura del Cinquecento<\/em>, Milan, 1961, 149, as not able to judge.<\/p>\n

Freedberg, 1961, I, 248-249, 607, II, Fig. 326, as Rosso, around 1513.<\/p>\n

Zeri, 1962, 227-228, 229, Fig. 16, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes, around 1510 or slightly later.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1964 (1976), I, Bk. I, 12, Bk. II, 1-73, 92-94, P. 3, II, Bk. III, Fig. 5, as Rosso, around 1513-1514; \u201cAddition to the Preface,\u201d 1976, vii, as not by Rosso.<\/p>\n

Borgo, 1968 (1976), 168, 169, as Anonymous, and related to the Madonna and Child<\/em> at Bucknell [RP.11] and the Holy Family<\/em> in the Borghese Gallery in Rome [RP.21].<\/p>\n

Dal Poggetto, 1969, 16, 17, under no. 17, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes.<\/p>\n

Freedberg, 1971, 484, n. 21, agreed with Zeri\u2019s attribution.<\/p>\n

Freedberg, 1972, I, 629, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes.<\/p>\n

Ragghianti, 1972, 44, without specifically mentioning the picture, stated that he agreed with Zeri\u2019s attributions of the pictures that had been given to the early Rosso.<\/p>\n

Ward, 1982, 364, under no. 324, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes (and as about the same date as a drawing by Bandinelli in the Louvre, Inv. 96, his Fig. 17).<\/p>\n

Berti, 1983, 45-46, as given by Zeri to the Master of the Kress Landscapes.<\/p>\n

Wilmes, 1985, 87-93, Fig. 2, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes.<\/p>\n

Fischer, 1986, 156, under no. 97, as by the young Rosso, the background group of buildings derived from a drawing by the young Fra Bartolommeo.<\/p>\n

Fischer, 1989, 328-329, 332, 333, Fig. 41, Fig. 42, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes, the buildings at the upper right derived from a drawing by Fra Bartolommeo.<\/p>\n

Ciardi and Mugnaini, 1991, 42, as convincingly taken from Rosso by Zeri.<\/p>\n

Franklin, 1994, 8, with reference to Zeri\u2019s attribution to the Master of the Kress Landscapes.<\/p>\n

Brilli, 1994, 145, Color Pl., 146, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes.<\/p>\n

Casciu, 1994, 28, 29, Color Fig., 30-31, no. 10, as by the Master of the Kress Landscapes, and datable 1510-1512.<\/p>\n

Ciardi, 1994, 58, 86, ns. 133 and 134, the attribution still a problem.<\/p>\n

Capretti, 1996, 153, 155, noted the \u201cperplessit\u00e0 sull\u2019attribuzione\u201d of the Arezzo painting.<\/p>\n

Waldman, 1998, 465 and n. 65, as by Giovanni Larciani, the group of buildings in the background derived from a drawing by Fra Bartolommeo, as recognized by Fischer, 1989 (see above).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is now general agreement that the painting is not by Rosso but by the artist whom Zeri recognized as the Master of the Kress Landscapes.\u00a0 He dated the picture around 1510 or shortly thereafter.\u00a0 Waldman identified this artist as Giovanni Larciani.\u00a0 Fischer dated the group of drawings by Fra Bartolommeo, of which the drawing used here for the background is one (Fig.Fra Bartolommeo, drawing<\/a>), between c. 1495 and 1508.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florence, Uffizi, no. 1890.8309 (on loan to Arezzo, Museo Communale). Panel, 83 x 63. Fig.RP.6a Fig.RP.6b detail, landscape A depressed area with a very clear edge appears left of the center of the Virgin\u2019s face, extends from over her right brow and downward at the left, then turns back across the landscape and terminates on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5935","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5935\/revisions\/6083"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}