Lot N. 5
Lazzaro Tavarone attribuito (, 1556 - , 1641)
Project for a cycle of frescoes, with scenes from the New Testament, for an unidentified church
(1556-1641)
pen and brown ink, brown wash. On two joined sheets of paper. Unidentified watermark with circle and letters. Defects and restorations
complessivamente mm 473x1145
The drawing has been declared of historical and artistic interest by the ministerial decree no. 199/2018, dated November 29, 2018
The historical and artistic report accompanying the decree attributes the drawing to an anonymous artist from Central Italy; but the graphic modes, evidently deriving from Cambiaso, certainly identifies it as the work of a Genoese artist, perhaps Lazzaro Tavarone, a collaborator of Cambiaso in Spain, who on his return to Genoa in 1594 carried out an intense activity as fresco painter for the nobility and the Church.
The historical and artistic report accompanying the decree attributes the drawing to an anonymous artist from Central Italy; but the graphic modes, evidently deriving from Cambiaso, certainly identifies it as the work of a Genoese artist, perhaps Lazzaro Tavarone, a collaborator of Cambiaso in Spain, who on his return to Genoa in 1594 carried out an intense activity as fresco painter for the nobility and the Church.