Lot 533: LAZZARO TAVARONE

LAZZARO TAVARONE GENOA 1556 - 1641 THE LAST SUPPER Pen and brown ink and wash with touches of white heightening over black chalk on gray-green paper; bears old attribution in pen and brown ink: Jac Tintorette f. 250 by 391 mm; 9 7/8 by 15 3/8 in

This drawing appears to be preparatory, with many differences, for the fresco decoration on the 'controfacciata' of the oratory of the church of SS. Nazario and Celso at Multedo (Genoa), completed by Tavarone in 1634 (fig. 1). The decoration of the oratory included eight episodes from the lives of the two saints and The Last Supper. The architectural setting of the fresco is the same as in the drawing but some of the figures and the apostles seated at the long and narrow table have been modified.υ1

1. See E. Parma, La pittura in Liguria, Il Cinquecento, Recco (Genoa) 1999, pp. 81-2, reproduced p. 82, fig. 75