"(ANSA) - Vatican City, July 26 - A painting touted as a possible new Caravaggio is not in fact the work of the 16th-century master, the director of the Vatican museums said Monday.
The Martyrdom of St Lawrence, hanging in a Jesuit church in Rome, is "only a modest copy" of a lost painting by a "quality" painter, not Caravaggio, Antonio Paolucci told Vatican daily l'Osservatore Romano.
Paolucci, a former culture minister and one of Italy's pre-eminent art scholars, noted that the foreshortening of the saint's hands was "wrong" while the anatomy of background nudes was "clumsy and haphazard".
The picture also had "uncertain" draping and an "inadequate" layering, he argued."
article by Paolucci: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/text.html#9
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"(ANSA) - Vatican City, July 26 - A painting touted as a possible new Caravaggio is not in fact the work of the 16th-century master, the director of the Vatican museums said Monday.
The Martyrdom of St Lawrence, hanging in a Jesuit church in Rome, is "only a modest copy" of a lost painting by a "quality" painter, not Caravaggio, Antonio Paolucci told Vatican daily l'Osservatore Romano.
Paolucci, a former culture minister and one of Italy's pre-eminent art scholars, noted that the foreshortening of the saint's hands was "wrong" while the anatomy of background nudes was "clumsy and haphazard".
The picture also had "uncertain" draping and an "inadequate" layering, he argued."
article by Paolucci: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_quo/text.html#9
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