PSEUDO-BOCCACCINO. - Name created by criticism to designate an unknown Lombard painter, whose only dated work of 1500 is the Washing of the Feet, of the Accademia in Venice (no. 599).

From this work, first attributed to Boccaccio Boccaccino (O. Mündler, Cavalcaselle, Morelli), Bode took the cue for the constitution of a separate group of works, independent of Boccaccino, and the creation of a distinct artistic personality. Among the works attributed to him the most important are: at Bribano (a hamlet of Sedico, Belluno), S. Niccolò; Madonna and Child, St. Roch and St. Nicholas; in Milan, Brera: Adoration of the Magi (no. 317); Baptism of Christ (in collaboration with Marco d'Oggiono (no. 318); Madonna and Angels (no. 789); Sts. Peter and John the Apostle, signed Iohes Augustinus Laudesi P. (for Suida it is a copy from an original by the P. B.); still in Milan, Countess del Majno Soranzo, Head of a Young Girl; there, Duke Gallarati Scotti, Holy Martyr; there, Guido Cagnola, Madonna with an Angel; there, Albertini collection (formerly Gall. Crespi), Madonna with the Child; Modena, Gall. Estense, Madonna and St. Sebastian in a Landscape (no. 490); Murano, church of S. Pietro Martire, Madonna in Throne with Saints; Venice, Accademia, besides the Washing of the Feet already cited, Madonna with St. Simeon and St. Jerome (no. 605) and Christ among the Doctors (no. 598); church of S. Stefano, sacristy, Madonna with St. Catherine and a Donor; church of S. Lazzaro degli Armeni, Madonna; Verona, Museo, St. Martha and Mary Magdalene. From the examination of the works there emerges the painter's position between Lombardy and the Veneto, which had given rise to the confusion with Boccaccino.

Attempts have been made to identify the anonymous painter with that Giovanni Agostino da Lodi who signed the small picture with the Sts. Peter and John, now at Brera, cited above, an opinion generally accepted. Suida, on the other hand, considers the Brera picture a replica; while leaving the question open, he leans toward the name of Andrea di Appiano, linked by tradition to two works attributed to the P.-B., preserved at Brera, coming from the Milanese church of S. Maria della Pace. Another interesting question is the attribution, in the Venetian tradition, of many works of our painter to a "Perugino" painter.

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BIBL.: F. Malaguzzi-Valeri, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, IV, p. 131, with bibl.; id., Chi è lo P.-B.? in Rassegna d'arte, 12 (1912), p. 100; J. A. Crowe - G. B. Cavalcaselle, An history of painting in North Italy, ed. Berenius, London 1912, pp. 391-92, note; Venturi, VII, iv, p. 980 ff.; W. Suida, Leonardo und sein Kreis, Munich 1929, pp. 209 ff.; 266 ff.; B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 88 and Italian trans., Milan 1936, p. 77; R. Palluschini, I dipinti della Gall. Estense di Modena, Rome 1944; A. Puerari, La Pousotaca di Cremona, Cremona 1951. See also the catalogues of the collections in which the works of the P.-B. are preserved.

Carlo Bertelli

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