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SALLAY, DÓRA: A Proposal for a Baptism of Christ-Lunette by Guidoccio Cozzarelli

100 cm 11. Theoretical reconstruction of Guidoccio Cozzarelli's Baptism of Christ-lunette as often happens in Cozzarelli's works.

17 The tiny piece of foliage showing through behind the left angel also indicates this. The presence of the arch also means that the composition is complete at the top. In the absence of available intact sections defining the curve of the lunette or the bottom line of the composition, it is not possible to determine the original dimensions of the lunette. What seems certain is that it measured at least 250 cm in width (and could have been much wider), and was probably about 115 to 120 cm high. One further note should be added in regard to the problem of the reconstruction. In Italian compositions of the Baptism of Christ between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, pairs of angels are occasionally arranged symmetrically on both sides,

18 or a larger group of angels - three, four or even more - is found on one side.

19 For this reason, the alleged existence of another piece depicting "Two heads of Angels" by Cozzarelli, listed by Berenson in 1936 and 1968 as in the collection of the Marchese 17 Cf. Vision of Jeremiah, miniature (Libreria Piccolomini, Siena, Cod 7.G, fol. 41r); Translation of the Virgin, predella scene (Museo d'Arte Sacra della Val d'Arbia, Buonconvento); Lamentation, fresco (tabernacle, Via di San Girolamo, Siena); Baptism of Christ (San Bernardino, Sinalunga, fig. 12); Flight into Egypt (Christie's, New York, 27 January, 2000, lot 18, formerly Count Giuseppe Placidi Coll., Siena); St. Sebastian (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena). 18 Bicci di Lorenzo, predella scene (Private coll., Florence); Bartolommeo di Giovanni (Finarte, Rome, 11 November, 1980, lot 8); Ghirlandaio (work cited inn. 16); Perugino and his workshop (The Art Institute, Chicago; fresco in the Chiesa della Nunziatella, Foligno; predella scene in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen). Bernardino di Mariotto (Pinacoteca, Camerino). 19 Giovanni di Paolo, predella scene (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) or Girolamo di Benvenuto, predella scene (formerly Livio Bruschi Coll., Florence). In the cited fresco by Agnolo Gaddi and his workshop (cf. n. 4) there are four angels on the left. In the altarpiece of Triora, Taddeo di Bartolo shows four angels on the left and two on the right. Jacopino di Francesco (cf. n. 4) shows eight standing angels to the right of the Baptism scene.