Christ Blessing
Christ Blessing
- Artist
- Attributed to Girolamo Romanino
- Artist Dates
- 1484/1487-c. 1560
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Christ Blessing
- Date
- c. 1510-20
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 55 x 40.6 cm (21-5/8 x 16 in)
- K Number
- K1033
- Repository
- Museum of Art and Archaeology
- Accession Number
- 61.76
- Notes
Catalogue Entry
Attributed to Girolamo Romanino
Christ Blessing
K1033
Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri, Study Collection (61.76), since 1961.(1) Wood. 21 5/8 X 16 in. (55 X 40.6 cm.). Fair condition; abraded throughout. The shadowgraph of K1033 reveals the original composition as considerably different from the present one: Christ's left hand was raised against the left side of His chest and held the staff of a banner, which was partly unfurled in the right background. But, what is more important, the modeling of the hands and head appears there as more precise and firm and the face as nobler in expression. This lends support to the Romanino attribution.(2) K1033 was probably painted between 1510 and 1520, under the influence of Titian and Giorgione. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1936 – exhibited: 'Giorgioneand His Circle,' Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Feb. 23-Mar. 21, 1942, no. 35 of catalogue, as Romanino.
References
(1) F. R. Shapley in Missouri Alumnus, May 1961, p. 3, as attributed to Romanino. (2) K1033 has been attributed (in ms. opinions) to Romanino by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, R. van Marle, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi; to Pietro degli Ingannati, by B. Berenson; and to a Brescian or Cremonese artist, by F. M. Perkins. F. Heinemann (Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, vol. I, 1962, p. 110) follows Berenson's attribution to Pietro degli Ingannati.