T. Wilson - Abstract

The present article presents, in grateful homage to the memory of Monsignor Franco Negroni, four istoriato maiolica plates, now in Mdina (Malta), Munich, Naples, and a private collection, which bear arms here identified as those of Giuseppe Baviera (1530-1591) of Senigallia. Giuseppe, the man who commissioned the remarkable series of stucco ceilings from Federico Brandani in his Palazzetto Baviera in Senigallia, was a leading citizen of that town and also a close associate of Duke Guidubaldo II of Urbino. The service to which these four plates belonged is tentatively attributed to the Fontana workshop in Urbino.