1528 or 1529<\/p>\n
Arezzo.<\/p>\n
In the inventory of 1532 of Rosso\u2019s possessions that were left at S. Maria delle Lagrime when he fled Arezzo in 1529 (see DOC.13<\/a>) there is listed \u201cdoi desegni in assi, overo in tavole.\u201d\u00a0 These would seem to be two small panel paintings, possibly \u201cbozze\u201d in color to serve those who were to execute the frescoes planned for the church of S. Maria delle Lagrime in Arezzo (see the Preface to D.31-34<\/a> and the related entries).\u00a0 That Rosso made oil sketches may be indicated by Vasari\u2019s reference to a \u201cbozza\u201d of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist<\/i> that he executed in Rome, but that painting could have been a small, freely executed painting not made as a study for a larger picture (see L.19<\/a>).\u00a0 After his flight from Rome, only two completed works by Rosso could have had oil sketches made for them, the Piet\u00e0<\/i> in Borgo Sansepolcro, which was executed before Rosso settled in Arezzo, and the Christ in Glory<\/i> in Citt\u00e0 di Castello, which had been begun before but was finished after this stay in Arezzo.\u00a0 Drawings are known for both, but no oil sketches exist nor are known to have been made for them.\u00a0 The \u201cdesegni\u201d could have been two of the many drawings that, according to Vasari (1568, II, 209; Vasari-Milanesi, V, 165), Rosso made in and around Arezzo for pictures and buildings (see D.35<\/a> and L.33<\/a>).\u00a0 It is possible that the lost works were paintings such as the small St. John the Baptist<\/i> of 1521-1522 (P.11<\/a>), which is not known to have been made as a study for a larger picture. \u00a0Franklin, 1995, 236, refers to these two works as \u201cpanels with drawing on them,\u201d as \u201cunderdrawn panels,\u201d and as \u201cpanel paintings,\u201d and comments on them as additions to the only other post-Roman panel paintings by Rosso that we know of, the Sansepolcro and Citt\u00e0 di Castello altarpieces.\u00a0 But as the inventory refers to them as \u201cdesegni,\u201d they were not comparable to those large works of the same size but were most likely sketches or studies.\u00a0 A document of 17 March 1567 (see L.26<\/a>, n. 2) that allows for the sale of \u201ccolori\u201d left behind by Rosso in Arezzo also includes for sale \u201cuna tavoletta di bosso [sic]\u201d that could be a small panel for painting (of boxwood?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1528 or 1529 Arezzo. In the inventory of 1532 of Rosso\u2019s possessions that were left at S. Maria delle Lagrime when he fled Arezzo in 1529 (see DOC.13) there is listed \u201cdoi desegni in assi, overo in tavole.\u201d\u00a0 These would seem to be two small panel paintings, possibly \u201cbozze\u201d in color to serve those who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":826,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7787\/revisions\/9011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}