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SALLAY, DÓRA: A Proposal for a Baptism of Christ-Lunette by Guidoccio Cozzarelli
A PROPOSAL FOR A BAPTISM OF CHRIST - LUNETTE BY GUIDOCCIO COZZARELLI The precise subject matter and the original context of a small panel depicting two angels in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest have not yet been satisfactorily determined. The piece, measuring 24.4 by 35 cm, is clearly a fragment, from a work by the Sienese Guidoccio Cozzarelli ( 1450-1516/17)' (fig. 6). It shows two haloed angels at bust length in front of a natural sky, with some vegetation behind the left angel. The angels both have shoulder-length, soft fair hair, red wings, and vividly coloured clothes. The one on the left wears a red undergarment with a collar turned back over a blue coat closed at the neck by a button; a white sash passes over his right shoulder. His companion also has a red undergarment, with a collar lined with black and folded over a blue I am grateful to Ilona Balogh, Anna Kuznetsova, József Laszlovszky, and Vilmos Tátrai for their kind assistance in research, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti in Florence and the Soprintendenza per il PSAD di Siena e Grosseto in Siena for generously granting me access to their holdings. 1 For essential literature on Guidoccio Cozzarelli. see Romagnoli, E.. Biográfia cronologica de' Bellartisti senesi. . .V. Biblioteca Comunale, Siena, Ms. L.J.I., ante 1835, ed. facsimile, Florence 1976, pp. 233244/4: Berenson, B., Guidoccio Cozzarelli and Matteo di Giovanni, in Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting, New York 1918, pp. 81-94; Van Marie, R., The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting XVI, The Hague 1937. pp. 367-389; Bacci. P., Una távola inedita e sconosciuta dell'agosto 1491 di Guidoccio Cozzarelli pittore senese, in Dipinti inediti e sconosciuti di Pietro Lorenzetti, Bernardo Dadái..., Siena 1939, pp. 207-227; Coor, G., A Note on Cozzarelli's Lunette in the Art Museum, Record of the Museum of Historical Art . Princeton University 21 (1962) 1. 10-15; Berenson. B.. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools!, London - New York 1968 (henceforth abbreviated Berenson, 1968). pp. 97-101: Padoa Rizzo, A., Guidoccio Cozzarelli, mDizionario hiografico degli italiani XXX, Rome 1984, pp. 555-56; Kanter, LB., Guidoccio Cozzarelli, in Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420-1500. cxhib. cat. (ed. Christiansen. K., - Kanter, LB. - Slrehlke, C.B.), New York 1988. pp. 282-86 (revised Italian ed.: La Pittura Senese net Rinascimento [with an additional essay by Mario AscheriJ, Siena 1989, pp. 296-299); Angelini. A., Guidoccio Cozzarelli. in La pittura in Italia: II Quattrocento II (ed. Zeri, F), Milan 1987, p. 606; Paardekooper, L, Due famiglie rivali e due pale di Guidoccio Cozzarelli per Sinalunga, Prospettiva 72(1993) 5 1 -65 (and Errata corrige, Prospettiva 73-74 1 1994] p. 192); Bonito, V.A.. Guidoccio Cozzarelli, in The Dictionary of Art VIII (ed. Turner, J.). London -New York, 1996, p. 100; Dittelbach, T, Guidoccio Cozzarelli. in Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon XXII, Munich - Leipzig 1999,pp. 114-115.
