Resumen de Per l'ultimo Volterrana
This essay discusses the last years of Volterrano, using early sources and archival documents to cast light on certain aspects of three altarpieces commissioned by Cosimo III de´ Medici but omitted in the artist´s biography by Baldinucci, namely the dates of the paintings for the convents of the Castellina and the Ambrogiana, and the subject of another picture for the lazzaretto in Livorno. Reconsidering Medici patronage during this period, apart from the recently rediscovered Saint Luke, the author presents an unpublished Saint Victoria painted for the Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere, and proposes that a Virgin of Sorrows was the pendant of the Ecce Homo painted for the Grand Prince Ferdinando, who collected other pictures from Volterrano´s late period, studied here for their stylistic evolution and relation to surviving drawings.
