Resumen de Lombardelli, non Raffaellino: un disegno per palazzo Buzi a Orvieto
A drawing formerly ascribed to Raffaellino da Reggio in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt is here attributed to the Marchigian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardelli, and compared stylistically with the frescoed Stories of Joseph he painted in the Palazzo Buzi in Orvieto in 1583/1585. The artist´s career was already fully established by this period, when he was engaged on a number of contemporaneous projects in Umbria and Rome. Lombardelli´s style in his drawings for mural painting is thus clarified, and considered as distinct from that of Raffaellino da Reggio, with whom he has often been confused. Two copies of the Darmstadt sheet exist in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, offering evidence of replication, a practice already documented in Lombardelli´s workshop.
