Adorazione con san Rocco

Rizzoli, Giovanni Pietro (active ca. 1495-1540)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1523

Height:

150.0 cm  (59 1/16 in.)

Width:

120.0 cm  (47 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera and oil on wood panel

Additional titles

Description

Putti musicians cheer the Infant Jesus: the putto at right side is playing a lute, the putto in the middle is playing vielle, and the putto at the left side is holding a book (maybe containing music) while a lute is standing on the left side. The adoration is joined by Saint Roch, identified by his pilgrim staff and cape, by the lesion on his leg caused by the plague, and by the dog with the loaf of bread. Given the fact that Saint Roch was worshiped particularly during times of plague, it is very likely that the painting was executed during 1524 and 1529 when Milan was struck by a plague epidemic.

People as subjects

St. Roch (14th century) (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Fiddle [3142]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Cristina Geddo. Appunti sulla cronologia del Gianpietrino. In: Arte e storia di Lombardia. Scritti in memoria di Grazioso Sironi (= Biblioteca della “Nuova Rivista Storica, 40), ed. by Paola Venturelli (Rome: Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, 2006), pp. 255-262.

Cristina Geddo, Leonardeschi tra Lombardia ed Europa. I ‘Giampietrino’ della Mitteleuropa. In: Lombardia ed Europa. Incroci di storia e cultura, a cura di D. Zardin (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2014), pp. 69-108.

Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023), pp. 88-89.

RIdIM record id

9858