Resumen de A newly discovered work by Giammaria Mosca, called Padovano
The writer attributes an altarpiece of a half-length Christ as Man of Sorrows, adored by two angels, in the Casa Cardinal Piazza, Venice, Italy, to 16th-century sculptor Giammaria Mosca, called Padovano. Mosca was the foremost sculptor of the Polish Renaissance, but he was trained in his native Italy and worked there for at least a dozen years before moving to Poland. The writer's hypothesis that the Christ as Man of Sorrows, adored by two angels is an early masterpiece by Mosca is based on comparisons between it and other works by Mosca, particularly two marble sculptures of St John the Baptist in Venice, one from the high altar of S. Rocco, the other in the sacristy of S. Stefano. She argues that, stylistically, the Christ as Man of Sorrows occupied a place between these two sculptures and, therefore, can be dated hypothetically to around 1525. She also proposes that the work can be linked, with some degree of probability, to the tomb of the well-known collector Francesco Zio in the Venetian church of St Maria delle Vergini.
