Intorno a un polittico di Tommaso Garelli: qualche precisazione e una nuova aggiunta

The article presents a Conversion of Saint Paul which recently appeared on the art market erroneously ascribed to the circle of Bia- gio di Antonio, but which should instead be attributed to Tommaso di Alberto Garelli. A secondary figure in Renaissance art of the Val- padana, Garelli nonetheless deserves praise for his early adherence to the new dictates of Donatello and antiquarian culture (precisely as in the painting published here), which had been introduced to Bologna by Marco Zoppo. This small panel must have formed part of the predella of a polyptych painted by the Bolognese artist after the one executed by Zoppo for the church of San Clemente in the Collegio di Spagna. The two masters were both involved on the project to decorate the chapel of Saint Bridget in San Petronio, where a planned cycle of frescoes was as- signed to Garelli and Giovanni Francesco da Rimini. An unpublished fragment discovered during recent conservation of the chapel may now be attributed to the latter, and certainly relates to the initial stage of the decoration, which was never completed.