Resumen de Proposta per Francesco di Paolo da Montereale disegnatore: un foglio al Metropolitan Museum of Art
This article seeks to draw attention to an unpublished sheet housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York with a generic attribution to the Central Italian School. The 'Saint Leonard and Episodes from his Life' (MMA, 2012.450) should instead be connected through its style and inscriptions to the area around L'Aquila by comparison with the oeuvre of one of the masters active in that region. It is likely that this is not only the first known graphic work by the painter and miniaturist Francesco di Paolo da Montereale (circa 1475-1549, documented from 1508), but the only known drawing of the entire School of the Abruzzi from the beginning of the sixteenth century.
