Daniele Crespi (1590-1630)

The death of Raymond Diocrs

细节

Daniele Crespi (1590-1630)
The death of Raymond Diocrs
inscribed 'iusto D.i iudico judicatu suma iusto del udicio .uicato suma'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, squared in black lead, upper left corner made up (?)
221 x 220 mm.

来源

A.P.E. Gasc (L. 1131).

出版

M. Gregori, Gli affreschi della Certosa di Garegnano, Milan, 1973, pp. 33, 40, note 78, fig. 28.
G. Bora, 'Ruolo e significato del disegno in Daniele Crespi' in Fra Rinascimento manierismo e realt: Scritti de storia dell'arte in memoria di Anna Maria Brizio, Florence, 1984, p. 163, fig. 13.
N. Ward Neilson, Daniele Crespi, Soncino, 1996, no. D24, fig. 72b.

拍品专文

A study for the first fresco on the right in the Certosa di Garegnano in Milan, N. Ward Neilson, op. cit., no. 14, fig. 37C. Crespi probably began to paint the large cycle of frescoes in the Certosa at the end of 1627, and signed the work on 5 April 1629, probably the date he finished the commission. Two further drawings are related to this fresco, a sketch for the full composition in the Ambrosiana, Milan, and a black chalk study for the figure of Raymond Diocrs in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, N. Ward Neilson, op. cit., nos. D14-D15, figs. 71 and 72a. Other drawings for the same commission are illustrated in N. Ward Neilson, op. cit., nos. D13, D17, D27, D6, D35, D5, D25, D30, figs. 73-77.
Crespi painted another fresco of the same subject in the Certosa at Pavia in 1630, but in a vertical format, N. Ward Neilson, op. cit., no. 49, fig. 54B.
The fresco is part of a cycle on the life of Saint Bruno. This composition illustrates the first event in the Saint's life, the death of Raymond Diocrs, Bruno's theological tutor and professor at the Sorbonne. Diocrs was said to have proclaimed on his deathbed, in front of Bruno and his other pupils, 'By the justice of God, I am condemned'.