Une peinture en plein air. Sur le traces de Giovan Andrea Bertanza (été 1618, dans les environs de Tignale, province de Brescia)

The paper concerns the great devotional painting existing in the sanctuary of Montecastello situated in the small village of Tignale which dominates the western bank of Garda Lake. The painting narrates the bitter armed conflict that took place in the mountains around Lake Garda on 17 august 1617, when the famous bandit Zanzanù was killed by a concentric attack of the community. The painting's author was Giovan Andrea Bertanza who satisfied the demands of the clients commissioning the work, while also skillfully rendering on a symbolic level the sensibility that imbued the new concept of order and social peace that was spreading throughout Europe at this time.