Genoa: two paintings by Carlo Braccesco enter the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola

They will be presented to the public tomorrow Friday, May 5, at 11 a.m., the two panels by Carlo Braccesco (documented from 1478 to 1501) depicting St. Peter and St. Paul that the owner, with great sensitivity and care, has decided to grant on deposit to the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola in Genoa. The two panels, originally side compartments of a polyptych painted for the church of Sant’Andrea in Levanto and dispersed during the 19th century, have been dated to around 1495: they will be placed on the third floor of Palazzo Spinola di Pellicceria, home of the section devoted to the National Gallery of Liguria, where they will be exhibited together with masterpieces by Antonello da Messina (theEcce homo), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (the Temptations of St. Anthony Abbot), and Joos van Cleve (the Portrait of Stefano Raggio). In the panel with St. Peter, moreover, a view of the Levant Ligurian city can be glimpsed.

The two panels, as anticipated, were included in a polyptych, probably commissioned by the Pammoleo family of Levanto. The rest of the complex is divided among several collections. The central panel, a Saint Andrew with Musician Angels, was registered in a private collection in London. At its side were the compartments now in Palazzo Spinola di Pellicceria. The predella, with episodes from the saint’s life, is divided between a private collection (the Preaching), the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice (the Crucifixion) and the Musée du Petit Palais in Avignon (the Miracle of the Mother). Completing the polyptych were depictions of four Doctors of the Church (all at the Ca’ d’Oro in Venice) and two pairs of saints (St. Jerome and St. Erasmus, St. Pantaleo and a holy bishop) now at the Museo Diocesano dellla Spezia.

“Testifying to the most relevant Ligurian pictorial production of the second half of the 15th century,” reads the presentation statement, “the presence of the two compartments provides a unique opportunity to propose an in-depth study of the figure of Carlo Braccesco and his patrons.” The panels will be presented by Gianluca Zanelli, director of the National Gallery of Liguria at Palazzo Spinola, with speeches by Serena Bertolucci, director of the Museum of Palazzo Reale and the Polo Museale della Liguria, and Farida Simonetti, director of the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola.

Genoa: two paintings by Carlo Braccesco enter the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola

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