Lot 107: Antonio (?) Marinoni (Desenzano al Serio ? 1470-c. 1545)

Antonio (?) Marinoni (Desenzano al Serio ? 1470-c. 1545)
Panels from a predella: Saints Mary Magdalen, Christopher and John the Baptist; and Saints Jerome, Nicholas of Tolentino and a Female Saint
on gold ground panel
9 x 20 in. (22.8 x 50.8 cm.)
two (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1992, lot 2, as Antonio Marinoni, where acquired by the present owner.

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The Marinoni were a family of painters active in Lombardy, particularly around Bergamo, in the 15th and early 16th Centuries, whose founder Giovanni was born in Desenzano al Serio, c. 1430. It remains difficult to distinguish the different hands of the different members of the family, who in spite of having almost certainly being trained locally, were well aware of the developments that were underway in Milan with the arrival of Vincenzo Foppa and the works of Bernardino Butinone and Bernardo Zenale.

Giovanni's son Antonio, who was presumably trained in the father's workshop, is in fact stylistically very close to his brother, Bernardo: the three of them signed the Polyptych of Saint John the Baptist in 1493 (Milan, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi). The workshop remained highly active during the first half of the 16th Century, under Ambrogio, son of Antonio.