Sull’asse Bologna-Padova-Venezia: un’inaspettata relazione fra Pietro Lombardo e Marco Zoppo

The article sheds light on the relationship between the oculi on the pediment of the polyptych by Marco Zoppo at the Collegio di Spagna in Bologna, and those carved by Pietro Lombardo for the pendentives of the cupola of the presbytery of San Giobbe in Venice. After noting how unlikely it would be that these solutions might be linked to a single prototype that has now been lost, the author sets out the circumstances that would have made it possible for Lombardo, whose oculi are of later date than those of Zoppo, to have seen the Collegio’s polyptych. Other works by Lombardo demonstrate that, at a time when both artists were living in the Venice area, he maintained a certain amount of attention to what Zoppo released. Zoppo, for his part, without having any particular partiality for Lombardo’s production, was nevertheless regularly compared to the highest-level sculptural works of the day.