Resumen de Lo studio per la pala con la 'Disputa dei Dottori': un disegno riscoperto
This article was prompted by the rediscovery in a private collection of the preparatory study for the altarpiece of the "Disputation of the Doctors of the Church", published in 1970 by Giuseppe Marchini, who attributed it to Girolamo Genga and associated it with the artist's altarpiece painted for the church of Sant'Agostino in Cesena, now in the Brera Gallery, Milan. An analysis of this sheet, which has been hidden from view since its first publication, provides the opportunity to discuss the relationship between the initial graphic invention and the subsequent, more mature pictorial composition, and thus to study the reasons behind the changes, especially in the conception of space, which are an outcome in the painting of a fruitful dialogue with Fra Bartolomeo.
