Filippo Piazza

This article proposes a partial addition to the catalog of the Cremonese painter Giovan battista trotti called il Malosso. A signed and dated painting by Malosso (Madonna of the Rosary with St. Dominique and St. Stephen, private collection) offers an opportunity to reflect on the artist’s creative processes, investigating his relationship with the workshop, with an approach that has characterized the recent monograph on the painter...

On a «bel gonfalone dipinto dal Lucchese» in Carpenedolo The old pieve of Santa Maria dell’Annunciazione in Carpenedolo (Brescia) houses an Annunciation on canvas, here attributed to Pietro Ricchi, known as “Lucchese” (Lucca, 1606 – Udine, 1675). The painting has been long ignored by art historians, due perhaps to its less-thanideal state of preservation until its restoration in 1993. New inquiries allowed the author to identify the work as the “beautiful gonfalone painted by Lucchese”, witnessed by Francesco Paglia in the parish church of Carpenedolo in the late 17th Century, and considered lost until now. The presence of two more paintings on canvas by Ricchi in Carpenedolo (a St. Anthony and a Madonna with Child) supports the hypothesis that the “gonfalone” seen by Paglia is actually the work here analyzed, which would constitute the only plausible explanation for its current location.