ANDREA SABATINI known as ANDREA DA SALERNO (Salerno... Lot 23

ANDREA SABATINI known as ANDREA DA SALERNO (Salerno c. 1480 - Gaeta 1530/1) THE TRANSFIGURATION Oil on panel, cm.170 x 120 PROVENANCE Roman family The painting, depicts the episode that occurred on Mount Tabor narrated in the three synoptic gospels (Mark 9:2-8, Matthew 17:1-8, Luke 9:28-36). Already listed as a work by Andrea Sabatini in the catalog of the picture gallery of the Marchesi Santangelo in Naples, the painting can be placed chronologically around the third decade of the 16th century, when Sabatini manifested, as evident in his works, the influence of Raphael's Roman works. The stylistic correspondences of the figures make comparisons with the triptych in the church of San Francesco in Nocera and with the figure of the Madonna of Constantinople in the cathedral museum in Salerno plausible. Probable participation in the making of the painting by pupils and collaborators who joined him at the Montecassino site in the late 1620s. These include Giovan Filippo Criscuolo (Gaeta 1500 - Naples 1584). The painting was confirmed as Andrea Sabatini's autograph, by Giuliano Briganti, in a written note dated February 27, 1990 CONDITION REPORT Board with vertical split in center without parquetry. Obvious felting with color falls, bifurcation of felting at lower part. Additional small felting at lower left corner. Small oxidized restoration spots scattered across the sky, two small restoration lines on the outstretched arm of the kneeling figure at lower left. The painting is in good state of preservation FRAME Gilt wood frame, with sandblasted interior and molded edge, 19th century BIBLIOGRAPHY Andrea da Salerno in the Southern Renaissance, edited by G. Previtali, exhibition catalog, Padula (Salerno) 1986, p 140- 141, no. 24 Salerno, Museo del Duomo; cf. Andrea da Salerno, ibid., 1986, p. 52. Catalogo della pinacoteca dei Marchesi Santangelo, Naples, Tipografia italiana, Liceo V.E. al Mercatello, 1876, p 34, card number 98. The painting is accompanied by a report by Prof. Giuliano Briganti dated 27/02/1990.