Expertise · Attributions · Connoisseurship

Paintings and drawings researched and attributed by Luca Fiorentino.

A body of work carried out through direct observation, detailed scholarly research, and collaboration with leading public and private institutions in Italy and abroad.

Each painting and drawing has a story: its identification, study, and publication. Each entry traces the path through which it was brought back to light.

Study of a skeleton

Johannes Stephan Van Calcar (Calcar, 1499/1501 ca. – Naples, post 1545)

Black chalk · 350 × 190 mm · 1538–1542

Preparatory drawing for plate 1 of De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1543). One of four surviving preparatory sheets, recently identified by Luca Fiorentino. The sheet…

Private collection
Martyrdom of Saint Catherine

Andrea Lanzani (Milan, 1641–1712)

Oil on canvas · 99 × 67 cm · 1678–1682 circa

Presentation modello for the lost altarpiece of Santa Caterina alla Ruota, Milan. The final work is documented in eighteenth-century sources and disappeared in the twentieth…

Galerie Michel Descours, Paris
Saint Luke, Pinnacle of the Monticchiello Polyptych

Pietro Lorenzetti (Siena, 1280 – 1348)

Tempera and gold ground on panel · // · 1315 circa

An exceptionally important masterpiece of fourteenth-century Sienese panel painting. The work, formerly part of the collection of Raimond Van Marle and recently rediscovered on the…

Palazzo Borgia - Museo Diocesano - Pienza (SI)
Allegoria della Pittura e del Disegno (Ut pictura poesis)

Francesco Cairo (Milano, 1607–1665)

Oil on canvas · 125 × 93,5 cm · c. 1634–1635

A work from the artist’s early period, interpreting the theme of Ut pictura poesis. Studied and published by Luca Fiorentino. Recently acquired by the Gallerie…

Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
Belisarius

Stefano Maria Legnani detto il Legnanino (Milano, 1661–1713)

Oil on canvas · 208 × 195 cm · 1697

Long attributed to Luca Giordano, the work has been reattributed to il Legnanino by Luca Fiorentino. The painting depicts Belisarius recognised by Roman soldiers, an…

Palazzo Carignano, Turin
Marina

Pietro Giacomo Palmieri (Bologna, 1737–Torino, 1804)

Pen and brown ink · 250 × 555 mm · ante 1775

Marine scene executed in pen and brown ink on prepared paper, a technique mastered by Palmieri in the 1770s. The inscriptions and watermark suggest a…

Private collection
Study of a seated man

Claudio Francesco Beaumont (Torino, 1694–1766)

Charcoal on blue paper · // · c. 1738–1742

Preparatory drawing for the fresco cycle of the Galleria Beaumont at Palazzo Reale, Turin. Identified by Luca Fiorentino in the context of research on the…

Private Collection

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