Resumen de Le scale veneziane di Mazzoni
This essay reflects on Sebastiano Mazzoni´s position on the Venetian art scene, starting in 1639 when he was first recorded there. Emphasis is given to the highly experimental character of Venetian culture in those years, and to the importance of the Florentine master´s relationship to Bernardo Strozzi, Pietro della Vecchia and Pietro Liberi; and some instances of attributional confusion between Mazzoni and Liberi are pointed out. Specific attention is drawn to the patronage of Giovanni Nani of San Trovaso, the founder of the Accademia dei Filaleti, whose palazzo housed at least thirteen works by the painter. Nani was probably involved in the creation of one of the most highly-praised paintings by Mazzoni in early guidebooks, the lost Massacre of the Innocents formerly in the church of San Trovaso, just opposite the Venetian patrician´s palazzo; and it is here hypothesized that an unpublished and much damaged fragment in the Mondi collection in Castelfranco may have belonged to it.
