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Andrea Solari (Milano, 1460 - Milano, 1524)School ofGiuseppe Meda (Milano, 1534 - 1599)
Sorrowful Mother
Oil painting on canvas
H 40x28.8 cm - in frame H 75x65 cm
Expertise by Professor Claudio Strinati:
"The work brought to my attention can be classified without any doubt as certainly ancient replica of a famous prototype by Andrea Solari (Milan ca. 1465-1524).
Solari was one of the greatest Leonardesque painters in Lombardy, very influential in its time and throughout the sixteenth century, and today revalued among the greatestmasters of the time. Solari, therefore, created this interesting prototype and suggestive, and he himself executed various paintings of this same subject, now preserved in public (for example at the Pinacoteca di
Brera) and private collections. The pictorial layout of our painting here under consideration is undoubtedly ancient but it is not, in my opinion, an autograph of Solario but of a later derivation but still executed within the context of its direct heritage and in the sixteenth century.
In particular, I believe that this version of ours, which is of remarkable quality and of good conservation, accentuates the religious character of the images through two peculiar aspects: the very intense expression of the Virgin, and the large hands that look like those of a peasant woman who has posed for the figure to accentuate its humble and popular character.
I believe that the work in question was executed within the strict scope of direct descendant of the artist who was particularly appreciated in Lombard circle of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo and Giuseppe Arcimboldi. In this area I believe to recognize the hand that actually executed the work in that of the eminent Giuseppe Meda (1534-1599) painter and
architect, who was in some ways a scrupulous follower of Solario. The workmanship of our painting leads me to date it, in fact, towards the end of Sixteenth century, precisely in the moment of Giuseppe's maximum splendorMeda, famous in ancient times for illustrious works, among which worthy of mention is the grandiose fresco of the Tree of Jesse in the cathedral of Monza, carried out in the 1560s.
A reasoned comparison between the figures of the Tree fresco of Jesse and our painting leads me to conclude that we are in the presence of same hand."
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