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[159] Nuova Serie 1 | 2023Storia dell’arte n. 159
Nuova Serie 1 | 2023
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Vincenzo Sorrentino
Bartolomeo Passerotti a Roma: una perduta commissione giovanile attraverso un documento inedito
The youth and the first Roman stay of Bartolomeo Passerotti are relatively unknown. An unpublished document, discovered in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, and consisting of three different legal depositions, enriches the understanding of his Roman years with a new commission, the knowledge of which was previously lost. The work in question was a mural painting made for a ‘deposito’ – a provisional burial – commissioned by a member of the Bardi di Vernio family. It was originally set in a chapel once standing between the façade of the Roman church of S. Maria del Popolo and the adjacent city gate; most probably the chapel had already been demolished when the three depositions were collected. The document in question will shed light on Passerotti’s acquaintances in Rome and may represent a clue to understanding his first step and better assessing his first patrons’ milieu.
