Andrea Previtali
Andrea Previtali (c. 1480 –1528) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo. He is also called Andrea Cordelliaghi.
Biography
Previtali was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini. In Bergamo, he painted a John the Baptist preaching with other saints (1515) for the church of Santo Spirito,[1] a San Benedetto and other saints for Bergamo Cathedral,[2] and a Deposition from the Cross for Sant'Andrea. Other works of his are in the Accademia Carrara.[3]
Previtali gained notice in 1937 in the United Kingdom for "not being Giorgione". Kenneth Clark, then Director of the National Gallery, London, bought two small panels of his from a dealer in Vienna, each with two rustic scenes. He paid £14,000 for them, which was a very high price at the time, despite opposition from his curators. The authoritative ascription of them to Previtali was published in 1938 in the Burlington Magazine by G. M. Richter,[4] based on research by Philip Pouncey, a curator.[5][6]
Previtali's masterpiece is an Annunciation (illustrated here), which stands over the high altar of the little-known church of Santa Maria del Meschio in Vittorio Veneto.
References
- ↑ Comune of Bergamo church entry.
- ↑ Interior (in Italian) Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ Catalogue in Italian Retrieved 11 January 2017 (various pages).
- ↑ Vol. 72 (1938), pp. 31–37.
- ↑ The Giorgione controversy Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ Nicholas Penny: "Blame it on his social life". London Review of Books Vol. 31/1, 5 January 2017.
Other sources
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 134.
- The Giorgione controversy. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/scenes-from-tebaldeos-eclogues
- James Stourton: Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilization' (London: William Collins, 2016).