Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista Organ Case

Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista Organ Case is a set of four tempera on canvas paintings produced in c.1535 by Moretto da Brescia. The inner sides show stories from the life of John the Baptist and scenes from the life of John the Evangelist. They now hang on the walls of the chancel of the church for which they were painted, San Giovanni Evangelista in Brescia.[1]

The only source for their original site is Bernardino Faino in 1630 who mentions the doors "of the outside and of the inside in the hand of Moretto"[2] At the end of the 17th century, Francesco Paglia describes them as removed from the organ and hanging on the walls of the chancel, from which he hypothesizes that the two saints John were originally the covers for the high altar, also by Moretto.[3]

References
  1. Pier Virgilio Begni Redona, Alessandro Bonvicino – Il Moretto da Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1988, p 300
  2. (in Italian) Bernardino Faino, Catalogo Delle Chiese riuerite in Brescia, et delle Pitture et Scolture memorabili, che si uedono in esse in questi tempi, Brescia 1630, page 60
  3. (in Italian) Francesco Paglia, Il Giardino della Pittura, Brescia 1660, p 186-187
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