Thursday, November 29, 2018

San Gottardo Altarpiece

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The '''San Gottardo Altarpiece''' is an oil on canvas painting by [[Giovanni Cariani]], previously dated to 1520 but now thought to have been begun in 1517 and completed in 1518. This made it perhaps his first major work and certainly the first work he produced in [[Bergamo]] after arriving there on 15 August 1517 - St Joseph was the city's patron saint. It was commissioned as an altarpiece by the council of the Scuola di san Giuseppe for the church of San Gottardo. There was tension between the commissioners and the artist and - instead of Cariani - they opted for [[Lorenzo Lotto]] and [[Previtali]] for the larger works in the church.

The painting was taken out of the church when it was suppressed and demolished under the Napoleonic regime. The main work and its predella of the Flight into Egypt were both in the palazzo Nuovo in Bergamo in 1803, when the latter was sold for 80 francs to Giuseppe Sonzogno<ref>Chiara Paratico, La bottega dei Marinoni, pittori di Desenzano al Serio, sec. XV-XVI, Bolis, 2008, ISBN 978-88-7827-168-5.</ref> and later entered a private collection and then the [[Accademia Carrara]]<ref>https://ift.tt/2QpHAuF>. The main work entered its present home in the [[Pinacoteca di Brera]] in Milan in 1805.

==References==

[[category:1518 paintings]]
[[category:Paintings of Pinacoteca di Brera‎]]
[[category:Italian paintings]]
[[category:Paintings of the Madonna and Child]]


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