Andrea Schiavone e la Scuola Grande di San Marco: qualche riflessione sulla tarda attività

• Autores: Vicenzo Mancini
• Localización: Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, ISSN 0392-713X, Nº. 38, 2014, págs. 29-38
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Andrea Schiavone and the Scuola Grande di San Marco. Some reflections on his late work.

    Andrea Schiavone is perhaps one of the leading painterd of sixteenth-century Venice whose career was been least critically ordered. Apart from his debut, even the period of his late maturity presents some dark areas, despite the presence of documented works such as the San Marcos ceilings, the Pellegrini chapel in San Sebastiano and the painting of "St Mark indicating the place of his burial" for the Scuola Grande di San Marco. A new document described here allows the relationship to be clarified between Schiavone and the direction of the Scuola di San Marco, led by the Guardian Grande Vittore Garbignan, who commissioned the Dalmatian to paint the illustration of the patron saint's miracle in 1561. It also allows a better light to be cast on the behind the scenes activity of the episode and an understanding of the social and cultural context in which the painter found himself working in competition with Jacopo Tintoretto.The author retraces the strategies and mechanisms within the Scuola that ended up preventing Schiavone's later documented painting wor begin completed. Some new paintings that enrich and expand the catalogue of his production in the years before the undertaking for the brothers of the Venetian scuola are also presented and discussed.