Alessandro Bonvicino Or Moretto Da Brescia (brescia, 1498 Circa - 1554), Christ Carrying The Cross

Oil painting on canvas, representing Christ carrying the Cross, Alessandro Bonvicino aka Moretto Da Brescia (Brescia, 1498 Circa - 1554).

The work has been attributed to Alessandro Bonvicino dit Moretto Da Brescia by Professor Claudio Strinati, who in the writing states:

The beautiful canvas with Cristo carrying the Cross in private collection - oil on canvas, cm. 135 x 97.5, in an excellent state of conservation - can be situated within the framework of the activity of the famous Brescian master Moretto da Brescia, among the highest representatives of the North Italian Renaissance.
In the climate of intense citation that characterizes the first decades of Mannerism, in which we also count the Moretto, a composition like this certainly looks at the prototype of Sebastiano del Piombo, the famous Christ carrying the Cross which in various variations - from from the first, very intense version of the Prado, Christ on the road to Calvary, cm. 121 x 100, inv. 345, until the latest and close to ours, the dark curtain-bearer Christ from the Szépmüvészeti Muzeum in Budapest, cm. 157 x 118, inv. 77.1 - Much luck had the adopted Venetian and Roman master and many derivations engendered in the Mannerist realm, turning into a sort of iconographic standard.

Provenance:
Hampel auction, June 27, 2019, lotto 685

Dimensions:
135.5 x 97.5 cm without frame