Giovanni Angelo Del Maino

The Magdalen

Provenance:
Mentioned 1516 (as still unpainted) in the testament of Giovanni Maria Rusconi
Private collection

Literature:
R. Casciaro, “La scultura lignea lombarda del Rinascimento” Milan, 2000 p. 335
R Casciaro, Giovan Angelo del Maino, I- La formazione e gli anni giovanili, in: Nuovi Studi I, 1996, pp. 59, 60, 64; fig. 134, 135

Condition:
This sculpture, as also the other four pieces until now known to us, seems to have never been painted, and neither to have received any preparation for panting.
Usually the washing away of the paint and the preparation makes the lines less crisp and precise; in this case all the cutting is very well preserved.

Remarks:
Around 1518.
Notified by the Italian State
.This expressive masterpiece made once part of a more complex group of the Lamentation with Crist which is now, as far as the whereabouts are known, divided between the Museum of Castello Sforzesco, Milano, a private collection Turin, another in Asolo and the present piece. It is one of Del Maino's masterpieces (cf. Casciaro, op. cit. 1996 p. 60).