G. Spina – Abstract

This paper starts from the rediscovery of a little-known painting in the Church of San Cristoforo in Cortona, dated 1710 and signed by Andrea Pasqualino Marini from Recanati. Sources mention this painter in Rome at the beginning of the 1680s, when he worked in the Church of Santa Maria in Campo Marzio, maybe as a pupil of Ciro Ferri. He operated most of all in his hometown and in other towns in the Marche, for example Matelica, Tolentino, Camerino and Corridonia. Other paintings are documented in Rome, such as the decoration of the dome of the Church of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte at the beginning of the 18th Century. At the end of his career, he was involved in a decorative campaign commissioned to Pier Leone Ghezzi by Clement XI Albani: six episodes of Papal ceremonies. Two of these paintings are surely by Andrea Pasqualino Marini.

This paper aims to take stock of Andrea Pasqualino Marini’s activity, to add some new attributions and to retrieve more information about his life.