Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ZSUZSANNA DOBOS: New Additions to the Art and Research of Girolamo Troppa

thy of note is a composition showing The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis of Assisi in a Swiss private collection (fig. 7), which was undoubtedly executed by the same hand as the Budapest Penitent Magdalen.

21 Not only are there similarities in the sweet bleariness of the heavenward gaze of the saint receiving a vision and the tenuous plasticity of the figure, but also in the brownish overall tone of the crepuscular landscape and the thin light contours dotted here and there framing the clouds. In spite of the fact that both the figurai types, the positioning of the kneeling St Francis with outstretched arms and the angular, deep folds of the drapery recur in the signed and dated altarpiece of Montecastrilli (1678), representing the artist's central phase, The Penitent Magdalen and the The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis most probably date from ; GIROLAMO TROPPA, THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. the 1660s, the time of Troppas close AUCTIONED AT SOTHEBY'S OLYMPIA. LONDON, OCTOBER28, 2004 relationship with Mola and before his collaboration with Gaulli.

22 On the other hand the Adam and his Family and the Bacchus and Ariadne in Kassel surely belong to the artist's later period, which supposition can be endorsed by the different treatment of the landscape. In these compositions the landscape is decorative and heroic, while the scenery composed in three tiers and stretching into infinity is blocked by bluish rocky mountains, almost melting into the azure of the sky, which is so typical of seventeenth century Italian landscape painting rooted in the Carracci-tradition and exemplified by the works of Gaspard Dughet and Gaulli. Schleier does not take a clear stand on the question of dating, and links the two paintings, primarily on stylistic and formal grounds, to the altarpieces of Tara no and Vallerano.

23 A hitherto disregarded parallel also reinforces the paintings' later dating: the Bacchus and Ariadne in Kassel,