Lot 55
  • 55

* Giovan Maria di Bartolomeo Bacci di Belforte, called Rocco Zoppo documented in Florence in 1496-died 1508

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Description

  • Giovan Maria di Bartolomeo Bacci di Belforte, called Rocco Zoppo
  • Madonna and Child with Two Angels
  • oil on panel, with a shaped top

Provenance

Col. W. Cornwallis-West, London, before 1910;
Finch College, New York;
By whom (anonymously) sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., October 22, 1970, lot 7 (as by Antonio Pastura da Viterbo).

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1891;
London, The New Gallery, Early Italian Art, 1893-4, no. 126 (as by Pinturicchio);
London, The Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures of the Umbrian School, 1910, no. 55 (as Pinturicchio).

Literature

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 194 (as by Francesco Verla);
F. Todini, La Pittura Umbra, Milan 1989, p. 307, reproduced vol. I,  pl. XLV and vol. II, p. 522, no. 1203 (as by Rocco Zoppo). 

Catalogue Note

Giovan Maria di Bartolomeo Bacci di Belforte, called Rocco Zoppo, is documented as being active in Florence from 1496 until his death in 1508.  He was a Florentine follower of Perugino and is recorded by Vasari as working with him on the Sistine Chapel. Todini also suggests that he served as an active member of Perugino's studio (see Literature below).   He is also documented as a follower of El Vannucci and connected to Luca Signorelli and Bartolomeo della Gatta.