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Christ Carrying the Cross

Gandolfino da Roreto (AKA Gandolfino d'Asti), Italian, (active 1475–1530)
Previously attributed to Ercole di Roberti (AKA Ercole d'Antonio di Roberti), Italian (Ferarece), (ca. 1449–1496)
Attributed to Giovanni-Francesco Caroto, Italian, (ca. 1480–1555)

Creation date: ca. 1500

Creation place: Italy

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting, Predella

Medium and Support: Oil on panel

Credit Line: Gift of Anne R. and Amy Putnam

Accession Number: 1947.39

State/Province: Piedmont

Dimensions: 11 1/2 in. x 27 1/2 in. (29.21 cm x 69.85 cm)

Provenance

Carlo Forresti, Milan, Italy ( - ca. 1947)

Jacob M. Heimann, New York, New York (ca. 1947 - 1947)

Anne R. and Amy Putnam, San Diego, California (1947 - August 20, 1947)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (August 20, 1947 - )

Label Copy

This painting was considered the work of Ercole de’ Roberti when it came to the Museum, but the angular qualities of the figures, which resemble Renaissance art from Northern Europe, are absent from the more classically Italian style of Ercole and his contemporaries in Ferrara. The painting has, however, recently been recognized as the work of Gandolfino da Roreto. Based in Asti, in Italy’s Piedmont region, Gandolfino seems to have been influenced both by the monumental form then developing in Italian art and by the precise details and emotive figures of painting from the Netherlands and France. Once the final scene in a predella that depicted the Passion of Jesus Christ, the composition here is a sequential narrative. The story begins with the Mocking of Christ in the middle ground at left, continues with Christ carrying the Cross in the foreground, and ends with the Crucifixion in the distance at right.
Last Updated: 6/4/2013

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

The Madonna in Art San Diego Museum of Art , 12/6/1957 - 12/29/1957

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 231

Julia Gethman Andrews (DUP). A Catalogue of European Paintings, 1300-1870 San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1947
Page Number: 39-40, Figure Number: 39

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 286

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 632

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1960
Page Number: 64

Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance—Central Italian and North Italian Schools Phaidon Publishers Inc.. New York, New York, 1968
Page Number: 132

The Madonna in Art San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1957
Page Number: 10 no. 25

Mr. Giovanni Sarti. Fonds d'Or et Fonds Peints Italiens (1300–1560) G. Sarti Antiques Ltd.. London, England, 2002
Page Number: 148-151, 153, Figure Number: 3h

Simone Baiocco. Gandolfino da Roreto el il Rinascimento nel Piemonte meridionale Fondazione CRT. Torino, Italia, 1998
Page Number: 326

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