Giovanni Antonio Sogliani

Carlo Falciani recently attributed this work to the sixteenth-century Florentine painter Giovanni Antonio Sogliani. Upon first-hand examination of the panel, Falciani noted similarities with another of Sogliani’s late works, dateable to circa 1530-1531, Dispute among the Church Fathers over the Immaculate Conception (fig. 1). Parallels are especially evident in the pointy-nosed faces of the male figures and the lyrical treatment of the drapery. Sogliani’s fresco, Supper of Saint Dominic and his Friars in the Refectory of the Convent of San Marco, executed in 1536, is another analogous work from the artist’s later years. The influence of Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo, and Mariotto Albertinelli, leading artists of the previous generation of Florentine painters, is also apparent.

We are most grateful to Carlo Falciani for his assistance cataloguing this work.