Resumen de Su Machuca a Raffaello, tra Roma e l'Italia meridionale
A "Baptism" on panel, once believed to be a work by the southern painter Andrea Sabatini, and in 1985 attributed, merely from a photograph by the autor, to the Spanish artist Pedro Machuca, recently reappeared on the London art market. It is therefore possible to ascribe with more certainly this remarkable new work to the Italian period of Machuca's career (c. 1510-1519) and to reaffirm his relationship with Naples at the time of the "Madonna del suffragio", now in Madrid, Museo del Prado (1517). This essay reexamines Machuca's works during these early years and his contacts in Rome, initially with Peruzzi and various Emilian artists and subsequently with Raphael, and supposes his partnership in Sanzio's studio, not only in frescoes like those of the Vatican Logge, but also in panel paintings such as the Branconio "Visitation" (Madrid, Prado).
