Girolamo Galizzi Da Santacroce

LOT 20 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION GIROLAMO DA SANTACROCE SANTA CROCE, BERGAMO 1480/5-1556 VENEZIA MADONNA AND CHILD WITH ST. JEROME AND ST. FRANCIS oil on panel 30,000—50,000 USD 17 1/4 by 24 1/4 in.; 43.8 by 61.6 cm. oil on panel In the possesion of the present owners since at least 1960. In the possesion of the present owners since at least 1960.

LOT 28 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE GIROLAMO DA SANTACROCE SANTA CROCE, BERGAMO 1480/5-1556 VENICE THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST oil on panel 15,000—20,000 GBP measurements note 33.7 by 30.1 cm.; 13 1/4 by 11 7/8 in. Appropriated by the Reale Accademia delle Belle Arti in Veneziabetween 1807-1814 and subsequently released onto the artmarket. We are grateful to Professor Filippo Todini for proposing theattribution to Girolamo da Santacroce on the basis ofphotographs.

Girolamo da Santacroce (Santa Croce, Bergamo 1480/5-after 1556 Venice) Scenes from Orlando Furioso: Agramante laying siege to Paris, Charlemagne leading Angelica away from Orlando, and Orlando routing the Moorish squadrons; and The duel of Orlando and Manricardo, the duel of Manricardo and Zerbino, and Astolfo delivering Senapo from the Harpies oil on canvas laid on panel the former 12 x 47¾ in. (30.5 x 121.3 cm.); the latter 11 7/8 x 47¾ in. (30.2 x 121.3) two (2) Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY OF THE BROMLEY-DAVENPORT FAMILY Provenance Presumably the Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (1787-1863), Wooton Hall, Shropshire, and by descent through his son William Bromley-Davenport, at Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield. Exhibited Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, Works of Art from Private Collections in the North West and North Wales, 21 September-30 October 1960, no. 10. Lot Notes These canvasses are among the finest of the relatively few secular works by Girolamo da Santacroce, who concentrated on the production of devotional pictures. His master, Gentile Bellini, who died in 1507, left Santacroce half of the figure studies he had executed as a result of his visit of 1479-81 to Constantinople, and lent to Pinturicchio for use in the Borgia Appartments and elsewhere. Orientals appear in a number of Santacroce's works, including the Murano altarpiece of 1507, the Risen Christ of 1517 in the Accademia, Venice and the Dresden Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. Ariosto's poem, Orlando Furioso, first published in 1516, evidently gave the artist an opportunity to redeploy his master's interest in the East. Another panel, also measuring 12 by 48 inches, of episodes from the poem, is in the Museum of Columbus, Ohio, but includes no representation of Orientals. Of particular interest in the second panel of these panels is the representation of a room hung with tapestries which are being inspected by candlelight. The prominent parrots in both compositions may be of heraldic significance. The pictures were both apparently owned by the Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (1787-1863), an early collector of Italian Renaissance pictures. These were not mentioned by Dr. Waagen, who stayed at Wooton in 1850 and may have been acquired subsequently, presumably in London where Bromley attended numerous sales. His collection included such masterpieces as the Giotto Dormition of the Virgin at Berlin and Bellini's Agony in the Garden in the National Gallery, London.

Girolamo da Santacroce (Santa Croce, Bergamo 1480/5-after 1556Venice) Santacroce The Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi and John theBaptist, and two infant Angels, in a landscape inscribed 'ECCE AGNV[S] DEI·' (centre right) oil on canvas 21¾ x 30 3/8 in. (55.3 x 67.3 cm.) Lot Notes This work is characteristic of the group of pictures assigned toGirolamo da Santacroce; its composition and handling can becompared to the Holy Family with an Angel in a landscape (Venice,Museo Correr). The rolling hills of the landscape recur in that andin other works, for example in Christ and the Samaritan woman atthe well (Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia).

The Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and a donor oil on panel 27¾ x 38¼ in. (70.5 x 97.1 cm.) Provenance Max Alsberg, Berlin. Paul Graupe; sale, Berlin, 29-30 January 1934, lot 2. Italy, private collection. Restituted to the heirs of Max Alsberg, October 2007. Literature B. Berenson, Pittura italiana del Rinascimento. La scuola veneta , 1958, I, p. 163, pl. 576, as an early work. F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani , Venice, 1962, p. 163, fig. 494. B. della Chiesa and E. Baccheschi, 'I pittori di Santacroce', in I pittori bergamaschi. Il Cinquecento , II, Bergamo, 1976, p. 42, no. 13, as a work of uncertain attribution. Lot Notes A prominent and respected criminal lawyer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Dr. Max Alsberg (1877-1933) was also renowned as a legal reformer and writer. We are grateful to Professor Peter Humfrey, who has also suggested a possible attribution to Francesco Bissolo (Treviso c. 1470/5-1554 Venice) on the basis of photographs.