A. Nesi - Abstract

This essay formalizes the assignment to Raffaellino del Colle of a painting with Saint Catherine of Alexandria crowned by two angels in a private collection. The author had already proposed it by an expertise at the time of the passage of painted on the market in 2013. The painting is very interesting, because it is an early work by Raffaellino and shows his high attention to the models of the first Roman classicism, especially those of Raphael and Giulio Romano. In particular it shows the study of Raphael's famous fresco depicting the Prophet Isaiah who is on a pillar of the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome, while the motif of the legs intertwined affected by the pose struck by Giulio Romano for the Virgin of the Holy Conversation he painted around 1523 for the German banker Jakob Fugger’s chapel in Santa Maria dell’Anima in Rome. Of this last painting Raffaellino owned the original carton. These quotes, however, are summarized by Raffaellino wisely and not random, so that it does not result in a impersonal patchwork but a successful synthesis of ideas reread tastefully self, which highlights his respect for the great protagonists of the Rome of Julius II and Leo X, and especially for his great homonymous from Urbino.