Carlo Portelli e l’ospedale fiorentino di San Matteo: una tavola inedita a Calenzano

• Autores: Cecilia Martelli
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 163-164, 2022, págs. 49-57
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The article presents an unpublished panel by Carlo Portelli (c. 1510?-1574), with a provenance from the church adjoining the Villa di Fibbiana in Calenzano, in the Florentine suburbs; the villa and oratory of Fibbiana were governed by the Florentine Ospedale di San Matteo. Research in the hospital archives has revealed that the painting dates from the early 1560s and was commissioned by Simone di Marco Gini, hospitaller of San Matteo until 1562 and a native, like Portelli, of Loro (now Loro Ciuffenna); Gini himself can therefore be identified as the donor in the lower left corner of the composition. This makes an interesting addition to the artist's mature oeuvre and can be compared in style with the altarpiece of the Allegory of the "Immaculate Conception", a masterpiece by Portelli dated 1566 now in the Accademia Gallery, Florence.