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| BELISARIO CORENZIO (Arcadia c. 1558-1646 Naples)
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| The Assumption of the Virgin
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Inscribed in brown ink lower center, [Belisario]
Pen and grey-brown ink, brown and blue wash heightened with white on beige paper
38.2 x 22.5 cm
Given its size and finished character, this drawing was certainly made in preparation for an altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin, yet no corresponding painting seems to survive. However, Corenzio treated scenes from the life of the Virgin in numerous paintings and frescoes, many of which are know lost but recorded by Bernardo de Dominici, the artist’s eighteenth-century biographer.
Born in Greece and documented in Naples from at least 1582, Corenzio enjoyed a long and successful career during which he executed a large number of paintings and frescoes for churches in and around Naples. He befriended Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) who introduced him the the viceroy of Naples, for whom Corenzio made several works in the Palazzo Reale. For the viceroy Alvares di Toledo (reg. 1622-9) Corenzio painted the fresco cycle of the deeds of the House of Alba, also in the Palazzo Reale.
Corenzio is one of the most idiosyncratic draughtsmen of late Mannerist and early Baroque art in Naples; particularly remarkable is his use of blue wash and heightening. Comparable to this drawing are several sheets in the Uffizi and the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, while a drawing of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Louvre is identical in style and handling of the media.
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