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

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

7 HERE ATTRIBUTED TO GIROLAMO TROPPA, THE STIGMATIZATION OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI. PRIVATE COLLECTION. SWITZERLAND especially in the positioning of the two protagonists, follows the composition of the fresco of the same subject matter in the cycle of the Palazzo Montani, Terni,

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2> On the other hand, the group consisting of Eve and the two children in the Budapest picture, reminiscent of Caritas-images, goes back to Mola's representations of the theme: in one of the drawings of the Ticinese master (Paris, Louvre) the suckling mother and the child standing by her appear in almost the same posture (fig. 8).

26 Piere I would like to briefly mention a third painting by Troppa, once in a Hungarian private collection, which though published by Andrea Busiri Vici has escaped the attention of art historical research in Hungary. At the 1924 Ernst-auction, a painting showing Jacob's Ladder, was auctioned off under the name of Francesco de Mura from the bequest of Miklós Széchényi, bishop of Nagyvárad (Oradea, today Romania) (fig. 9). The painting is probably an autograph replica of the composition, which architect Lambert van Haven purchased from Troppa in 1669 for the Cabinet des Curiosités, Copenhagen.

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