BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI (BOLOGNA 1529-1592 ROME) - photo 1

BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI (BOLOGNA 1529-1592 ROME)

Lot 93
27.01.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 20 000
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ID 696491
Lot 93 | BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI (BOLOGNA 1529-1592 ROME)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI (BOLOGNA 1529-1592 ROME)

The head of the Virgin with the Annunciation

signed ‘BPassarotto. F.’ (‘BP’ in ligature) (lower right)

pen and brown ink, gray wash (added later)

18 x 14 1⁄2 in. (46 cm x 36.5 cm)







Provenance

Egnazio Danti (1536-1586), Rome.

Probably Canons Regular of S. Salvatore, Bologna.

Probably Dominco Grossi, Bologna.

August Grahl (1791-1868), Dresden (L. 1199).

Felix Becker (1864-1928), Leipzig.

with R.E.A. Wilson, London (Catalogue of Drawings by Old Masters and Modern Artists, 1934, no. 103, ill.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 25 March 1965, lot 59.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 14.





Literature

V. Borghini, Il Riposo, Florence 1584, p. 566.

C. C. Malvasia, Felsina pittrice, Bologna, 1678, II, p. 245.

A. Bolognini-Amorini, Vite dei pittori ed artefici bolognesi, Bologna, 1841-1845, I, p. 92.

F. Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen. Fünfzig bisher nicht veröffentliche Originalzeichnungen des XV. bis XVIII Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1922, p. 13, ill.

Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani dall’XI al XX secolo, Turin, 1975, VIII, p. 362.

M. Fanti, ‘Spigolature d’archivio per la storia dell’arte a Bologna’, Il Carrobbio, IV, 1978, pp. 193-194.

M. Daly Davis, ‘Beyond the ‘Primo Libro’ of Vincenzo Dati’s Trattato delle Perfette Proporzioni’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XXVI, 1982, no. 1, p. 83, n. 101.

S. Brink, ‘Fra Egnazio Danti, das Programm der Sala Vecchia degli Svizzeri im Vatikan und C. Ripas Iconologia’, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XXVII, 1983, no. 2, pp. 240-241.

C. Höper, Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592), Worms, 1987, II, no. Z186.

A. Ghirardi, Bartolomeo Passerotti pittore (1529-1592). Catalogo generale, Rimini, 1990, no. 55b, ill.

F. A. den Broeder, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle, exhib. cat., Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, and elsewhere, 1991-1992, p. 46, under no. 14, ill.

B. Bohn, ‘Felsina collezionista. The creation of finished drawings in Sixteenth Century Bologna’, Studi di Storia dell’Arte, V-VI, 1994-1995, p. 195.

S. Tumidei, ‘Alessandro Menganti e le arti a Bologna nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Alla ricerca di un contesto,’ in Il Michelangelo incognito. Alessandro Menganti e le arti a Bologna nell’età della Controriforma, exhib. cat., Bologna, Museo civico medievale, 2002, p. 102.

F. Francesca, ‘Danti Edits Vignola. The Formation of a Modern Classic on Perspective’, in The Treatise on Perspective. Published and Unpublished. Papers Presented at the First Kress-Murphy Symposium Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and New Haven, 2003, p. 142.

A. Ghirardi, ‘Sotto il segno del Vignola. Bartolomeo Passerotti e Egnazio Danti a Bologna’, in La percezione e la rappresentazione dello spazio a Bologna e in Romagna nel Rinascimento fra teoria e prassi, Bologna, 2007, pp. 127-130, ill.

L. Giles in Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2014, p. 105, under no. 43, ill.





Exhibited

Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, 2014 (no catalogue).
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