Deposits on Display: Dinner at the House of the Pharisee by Angelo Marini known as the Sicilian

The first work in the Deposits cycle in the exhibition is the Dinner at the House of the Pharisee, a relief that was recently studied by Clara Seghesio. Thanks to a renewed critical and historical analysis, the expert was able to revise the attribution of the work, proposing new interpretive elements that enrich its understanding.

On the occasion of the opening of the Deposits cycle in the exhibition, VIVE puts the wooden relief Dinner at the House of the Pharisee, part of the great machine conceived by Giorgio Vasari to adorn the high altar of the basilica of Santa Croce in Bosco Marengo, commissioned by Pius V, in dialogue with two significant works. These are the frescoes created for Palazzo Altoviti by Vasari himself and the bronze bust of the Roman school depicting Pope Pius V himself.