![]() ![]() ![]() 21, lists the painting in the sacristy of the church of the Spedale degli Incurabili, possibly this picture. 330, lists a small painting of half-length figures of the Madonna and Saints Joseph and Mary Magdalen in the sacristy of the church of the Spedale degli Incurabili, possibly this picture. Descrizione di tutte le pubbliche pitture della citta' di Venezia e isole circonvicine: O sia rinnovazione delle Ricche minere di Marco Boschini, colla aggiunta di tutte le opere, che uscirono dal 1674 fino al presente 1733. Le ricche minere della pittura veneziana. 343–44, mentions in the sacristy of the church of the Spedale degli Incurabili a painting of the Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph and Mary Magdalen, "opera unica in Venezia di Andrea Mantegna," possibly this picture. There are analogies for the placement of the figures with Roman funerary reliefs. ![]() Although the picture has sometimes been ascribed to Mantegna’s son, Francesco, it is, instead, a fine but badly damaged autograph work by Mantegna himself and probably dates to about 1495–1500 (Christiansen 1992). 87), has also been put forward as that picture its history is reviewed in detail by Marinelli (2010), who notes that since the hospital was only founded in 1522, the picture Boschini describes was bequeathed by an earlier owner. If this identification is correct, the picture may well be one described by Boschini (16) in the sacristy of the church of the Spedale degli Incurabili in Venice: "In the sacristy, the Blessed Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph and Mary Magdalen is a unique work by Andrea Mantegna in Venice." Another picture, in the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona (no. The holy family is accompanied by a female saint who, dressed in red, is likely to be Mary Magdalen. ![]()
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