This study examines the medieval triptych hanging in the first hall of the picture gallery of the Correr Museum in Venice (inventory Cl. I n.0657, 0675, 0973); this work, though neglected by literary critics, is undoubtedly worthy of attention as it possesses various iconographic and stylistic particularities which make it a real "hapax" in the peninsular artistic panorama. The left shutter shows "The Tree of f esse" a symbolic illustration of the genealogy of Christ, and is surmounted by the "Transfiguration". The central panel shows a complex "Lignum vitae Christi", a mystic representation of the "Crucifixion" done by a Franciscan artist at the beginning of the XIV century and based on a religious booklet drawn up by Bonaventura da Bagnoregio. On the lower part of the vertical surface there is an unusual apocalyptic image of the "Madonna with Child" known as the "Mulier amicta sok". On the right-hand shutter are illustrated numerous episodes taken from the Old and New Testaments as well as apocryphal tradition (Protovangelo di Giacomo and pseudoMatteo). The wealth of descriptions doctrinal complexity of the whole, implies the participation of a person of deep theological and eschatological knowledge, strongly inclined towards iconographical experimentation. The so far unknown analysis here proposed, well integrated by a great quantity of illustrations, allows a recognition of the numerous mentioned subjects and to understand the authorship of the work of art to belong to a Venetian artist, of rather high value and active at the beginning of the X IV century. The triptych also testifies a precocious penetration in Venice of the Gothic applications seen on the mainland following an affirmation by Paolo Veneziano. The anonymous painter, in fact, inserts personal elements in the new continental sensitiveness of the basis of Giotto onto a Byzantine block and expresses extraordinary ability even in the most minute details, of almost miniaturist tendency.

Problemi d'iconografia. Cenni su un enigmatico trittico medievale del Museo Correr a Venezia

PASSUELLO, ANGELO
2015-01-01

Abstract

This study examines the medieval triptych hanging in the first hall of the picture gallery of the Correr Museum in Venice (inventory Cl. I n.0657, 0675, 0973); this work, though neglected by literary critics, is undoubtedly worthy of attention as it possesses various iconographic and stylistic particularities which make it a real "hapax" in the peninsular artistic panorama. The left shutter shows "The Tree of f esse" a symbolic illustration of the genealogy of Christ, and is surmounted by the "Transfiguration". The central panel shows a complex "Lignum vitae Christi", a mystic representation of the "Crucifixion" done by a Franciscan artist at the beginning of the XIV century and based on a religious booklet drawn up by Bonaventura da Bagnoregio. On the lower part of the vertical surface there is an unusual apocalyptic image of the "Madonna with Child" known as the "Mulier amicta sok". On the right-hand shutter are illustrated numerous episodes taken from the Old and New Testaments as well as apocryphal tradition (Protovangelo di Giacomo and pseudoMatteo). The wealth of descriptions doctrinal complexity of the whole, implies the participation of a person of deep theological and eschatological knowledge, strongly inclined towards iconographical experimentation. The so far unknown analysis here proposed, well integrated by a great quantity of illustrations, allows a recognition of the numerous mentioned subjects and to understand the authorship of the work of art to belong to a Venetian artist, of rather high value and active at the beginning of the X IV century. The triptych also testifies a precocious penetration in Venice of the Gothic applications seen on the mainland following an affirmation by Paolo Veneziano. The anonymous painter, in fact, inserts personal elements in the new continental sensitiveness of the basis of Giotto onto a Byzantine block and expresses extraordinary ability even in the most minute details, of almost miniaturist tendency.
2015
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