Study for a Pietà with Saints Andrew and Nicholas of Bari

formerly School of Mariotto Albertinelli, 1474 - 1515; born and died Florence, Italy

The drawing was attriubuted to the School of Mariotto Albertinelli in Felton Gibbons' Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University (1977) with a note that a tentative attribution to Albertinelli was suggested by Suida. Nicholas Turner first questioned the drawing’s connection with Mariotto Albertinelli and proposed a date in the second half of the sixteenth century. Aidan Weston-Lewis (via email) recognized the sheet as a compositional sketch by Alessandro Casolani for his important yet little-known Pietà with Saints Andrew and Nicholas of Bari painted for the altar of the Compagnia della Madonna in the church of San Niccolò in Casale, now in the Collegiata of Casole d’Elsa (Casole d’Elsa 2002, cat. no. 10, illus.) for which there is another unpublished double-sided sheet of chalk figure studies in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh (inv. no. D 4956).

-Lia Markey, 2013

Symbolic Crucifixion

• Exhibition of drawings by old masters from the private collection of Prof. Frank Jewett Mather: International Art Center of Roerich Museum: December 18th to 31st, 1930, (New York: Roerich Museum, 1930)., cat. no. 81
• "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 2 (1951): p. 22-23., p. 22
• Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
• Nicholas Turner, "Review of "catalogue of Italian drawings in the Art Museum", Princeton University by Felton Gibbons," Art bulletin 62, no. 3 (Sept., 1980), p. 486-490.
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