Oil on panel Provenance: San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) Costantini Brancadoro Collection The painting is an unpublished work by the Florentine painter Jacopino del Conte, a leading exponent of the second phase of Mannerism known as the "Grande Maniera." Jacopino trained in the workshop of Andrea del Sarto, alongside artists such as Francesco Salviati, with whom he shared a move to Rome and the fresco decoration of the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato (ca. 1536-1541). This proves that the painting in question is unequivocally by Jacopino. In fact, the panel reproduces the central section of the fresco with the Baptism of Christ, dated 1541. The figure of Jesus is literally derived from the Roman fresco, as if the same material had been used. cartoon, only in reverse, and the pose of the Baptist is the same, simply reversed. Other similarities are found in the landscape setting and especially in the pose of one of the witnesses to the scene, with his gaze equally ...
Sum Leo Ripanus, vae cui porrexero manus. / Sum Leo Ripanus, existens amicis humanus.