ANDREA SABATINI DA SALERNO (attr. a) Lot n° 1157

(Naples, 1490 - active until 1530) St. John the Evangelist and Saint Oil on panel, cm 36X61 Certainly active in Naples in 1510 with the title of Master, Andrea Sabatini shows from the very beginning an autonomous style with respect to the southern pictorial tradition, highlighting influences of Leonardo's culture, Raphael and coeval Umbrian painting. This can be seen by looking at the 1508 triptych depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints preserved in the church of Sant'Andrea in Teggiano, in which we can also glimpse suggestions inferred from Perugino and Pinturicchio, authors whose fame in the Neapolitan city is attested by Vannucci's Assumption for the cathedral of Naples (c. 1506), and Pinturicchio's for the Tolosa chapel in the church of Monteoliveto now in Museo di Capodimonte dated to c. 1510. Only after this date does the painter show a marked Raphaelesque accent and Lombard hints, which may have been popularized by Cesare da Sesto, who during the early 1510s is in Rome and from 1514 is documented in Naples. Reference bibliography: P. Leone de Castris, Andrea Sabatini da Salerno il Raffaello di Napoli, Naples 2017, ad vocem