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174 GIOVANNI BUONCONSIGLIO
when considering that those arms have been intention-
ally painted on one side of the base, to leave space on
the other for the inscription . . Dr. Ludwig,
again, argues : “ The mere circumstance that the
cartellino is not in the middle of the base but somewhat
more towards the left side, shows that the painter,
already when composing the picture, thought of
inserting the arms.” But his premise is wrong ; for,
as a closer inspection of a photograph of the picture
reveals, the cartellino is accurately in the middle of the
pedestal, being somewhat larger than it would appear
at first sight ; and the cartoccio covers it in part and
would therefore rather seem a later addition.
Crowe and Cavalcaselle remarked against Zanotto
that the execution of the picture does not point to a
date posterior to that of the Montagnana paintings ;
and even if one might feel somewhat uncertain about
this, some grounds for dating the Venice altar-piece
before the great picture, now in the Municipio of
Montagnana, may be had from the following. In the
latter work there is a figure of St. Jerome, of which
one sees scarcely more than the head, which is almost
identical with that of the saint in the former painting.
A very natural way of explaining this fact seems to be
to assume that the artist took the head at Montagnana
from the pre-existing full-length figure in the San
Secondo pala. All things considered, one may thus safely
place this work hereabouts in Buonconsiglio’s career.1
1 Venice. Santo Spirito. Above the first altar to the right. Signed
on a cartellino on the pedestal:
• Joanes ' Bonichonsilij | dito Mareschalco | ‘ p ’
On wood. Circular top. ’2.5 X 1.5. Very badly lighted. Codagli
(1609) speaks of a -pala in San Secondo “ in Capella Maggiore, del
Marescalco ” (Historia dell’Isola e Monasterio di S. Secondo di Veneha,
p. 29 r°). Spaziani (about 1770) gives moreover a description of its
subject, which is correct except that he mistakes St. Jeromefor St. Erasmus
(Storia dell’ Isola e Monastero di San Secondo, MS. quoted by Cigogna,
when considering that those arms have been intention-
ally painted on one side of the base, to leave space on
the other for the inscription . . Dr. Ludwig,
again, argues : “ The mere circumstance that the
cartellino is not in the middle of the base but somewhat
more towards the left side, shows that the painter,
already when composing the picture, thought of
inserting the arms.” But his premise is wrong ; for,
as a closer inspection of a photograph of the picture
reveals, the cartellino is accurately in the middle of the
pedestal, being somewhat larger than it would appear
at first sight ; and the cartoccio covers it in part and
would therefore rather seem a later addition.
Crowe and Cavalcaselle remarked against Zanotto
that the execution of the picture does not point to a
date posterior to that of the Montagnana paintings ;
and even if one might feel somewhat uncertain about
this, some grounds for dating the Venice altar-piece
before the great picture, now in the Municipio of
Montagnana, may be had from the following. In the
latter work there is a figure of St. Jerome, of which
one sees scarcely more than the head, which is almost
identical with that of the saint in the former painting.
A very natural way of explaining this fact seems to be
to assume that the artist took the head at Montagnana
from the pre-existing full-length figure in the San
Secondo pala. All things considered, one may thus safely
place this work hereabouts in Buonconsiglio’s career.1
1 Venice. Santo Spirito. Above the first altar to the right. Signed
on a cartellino on the pedestal:
• Joanes ' Bonichonsilij | dito Mareschalco | ‘ p ’
On wood. Circular top. ’2.5 X 1.5. Very badly lighted. Codagli
(1609) speaks of a -pala in San Secondo “ in Capella Maggiore, del
Marescalco ” (Historia dell’Isola e Monasterio di S. Secondo di Veneha,
p. 29 r°). Spaziani (about 1770) gives moreover a description of its
subject, which is correct except that he mistakes St. Jeromefor St. Erasmus
(Storia dell’ Isola e Monastero di San Secondo, MS. quoted by Cigogna,