Federico Barocci, Salvator Mundi

Oil on canvas
cm. 41x30,5. Framed
The painting is accompanied by the expertise of Prof. Arabella Cifani who attributes it to Alessandro Vitali.

This remarkable representation of Christ as Salvator Mundi, blessing and holding the globe in his left hand, derives from the Christ of the Last Supper that Federico Barocci painted between 1590 and 1599 for the Cathedral of Urbino, recontextualised from a functional point of view for private devotion. Also from a technical and stylistic point of view, as well as from an iconographic and compositional one, our canvas displays a profound level of understanding and mimicry of Barocci's example, indicative of a hand particularly close to the great Urbino master, first that of Alessandro Vitali (Urbino, 1580-1630) as suggested in her expertise by Arabella Cifani.

The painting is accompanied by the expertise of Prof. Arabella Cifani who attributes it to Alessandro Vitali.

This remarkable representation of Christ as Salvator Mundi, blessing and holding the globe in his left hand, derives from the Christ of the Last Supper that Federico Barocci painted between 1590 and 1599 for the Cathedral of Urbino, recontextualised from a functional point of view for private devotion. Also from a technical and stylistic point of view, as well as from an iconographic and compositional one, our canvas displays a profound level of understanding and mimicry of Barocci's example, indicative of a hand particularly close to the great Urbino master, first that of Alessandro Vitali (Urbino, 1580-1630) as suggested in her expertise by Arabella Cifani.