Vasari a Rimini: i perduti laterali dell''Adorazione dei Magi'

• Autores: Carlo Falciani
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 119, 2015, págs. 46-52
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The article presents the lateral panels that originally flanked the altarpiece with the "Adoration of the Magi" painted by Giorgio Vasari in 1547 for the church of Olivetan monastery of Santa Maria in Scolca, near Rimini. According to Vasari's own record, the decorative cycle also included frescoes, destroyed around the middle of the seventeenth century, when an entire wall was torn down to create the space for a curved apse. It was probably at that point that the side panels of the altarpiece were removed and placed in the convent, where they are still recorded in 1726, when the friars presented them to the Prince of Avellino, who was residing in the city. From that moment on all trace is lost of the two paintings. Cleaning has freed the two scenes from nineteenth-century repainting and has recovered the architectural motif visible on the flooring of the left-hand panel, which matches perfectly with the corresponding step in the Rimini altarpiece.