God the Father
Artist
Ludovico Mazzolino
(Italian, ca.1480 - ca.1530)
Date1510-1520
Object number62.0262
Mediumoil on canvas, transferred from panel
Dimensions28 5/8 × 23 1/2 in. (72.7 × 59.7 cm)
frame: 35 3/8 × 30 3/8 × 3 in. (89.9 × 77.2 × 7.6 cm)
frame: 35 3/8 × 30 3/8 × 3 in. (89.9 × 77.2 × 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
Collections
On View
Not on viewDescriptionThis panel which may have formed the crowning feature of a larger altarpiece and clearly depends on Umbrian models, such as Perugino’s painting in the Certosa di Pavia; nevertheless, it is very characteristic of Mazzolino. The type of God the Father occurs elsewhere in Mazzolino’s work, notably in the Holy Family in the National Gallery, London. An almost identical version of the Ponce painting is in the Dr. Giacomo Bargellesi Collection, Milan. Zamboni dates the Ponce version to c. 1515 and slightly earlier than the Bargellesi version.
Source: "Paintings and Sculpture of the European and American Schools." Ponce, P.R: Museo de Arte de Ponce (Luis A. Ferré Foundation), 1984.
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