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LUCA CAMBIASO (1527–1585)

Flagellation of Christ

Year C. 1570-1575
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 134 x 162 cm 52 3/4 x 63 3/4 in.
Signed and dated Inscribed on the reverse - Les deux initiales « S. (ou I ?) + P. »

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Provenance

Massimiliano Spinola (1780–1857), by 1847, initially at his palace in Genoa;

Transferred to Castello Tassarolo;

Thence by descent to Paolo Spinola (1929–2005);

Acquired by the present owner in the late 1990s.

Literature

Federico Alizeri, Guida Artistica per la Città di Genova, 2 vols., Genoa, [1846–47] 1847, II/1, p. 777.

André-Absinthe Lavice, Revue des Musées d’Italie. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et sculptures exposées dans les galeries publiques et dans les églises…, Paris, 1862, p. 118.

Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les Écoles, Paris, 1883, vo. 14, p. 8.

Mario Labò, Mostra centenaria di Luca Cambiaso, exh. cat., Genoa, December 1927, p. 21.

Bertina Suida Manning – William Suida, Luca Cambiaso, la vita e le opere, Milan, 1958, p. 117.

Lauro Magnani, “Dopo la mostra di Milano”, in Napoli, Genova, Milano. Scambi artistici e culturali tra città legate alla Spagna (1610–1640), proceedings of the conference Turin-Genoa, 13–15 September 2018, ed. L. Magnani, A. Morandotti, D. Sanguineti, G. Spione, L. Stagno, Milan, 2020, pp. 220–221, 227, fig. 12.

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Flagellation of Christ — detail
Flagellation of Christ — detail
Flagellation of Christ — detail
Flagellation of Christ — detail
Flagellation of Christ — detail