Una proposta per l’attività grafica di Francesco Madonnina

It is here proposed to recognize, in the Crucifixion object of this essay, the first known graphic evidence attributable to Francesco Madonnina, a rare and little known artist of the late modenese sixteenth century, who died in 1591, age thirty. The comparison with the Crucifixion of Magreta and with the one present among the mysteries of the Pala del Rosario, in Correggio, reveals its analogies: the disproportion between the monumental figures of the mourners and the more minute one of Christ, the anatomical solidity, the somatic similarity of the protagonists, which refers to the types of Domenico Carnevali and Bartolomeo Passerotti.