inscription on the letter Al Mag. co S. Hieronim / Salamoni quanto [...] 


Lot declared of exceptional historical-artistic interest by the Ministry of Culture, General Secretariat for Piedmont,  art. 10, paragraph 3, letter a) and 13, paragraph 1 of Legislative Decree 42/2004 and subsequent amendments with DCR n. 274 of 08/31/2023.

Due to the extraordinary historical and artistic importance of the lot, no buyer's premium will be applied.

The painting is accompanied by an expertise by Dr. Vera Fortunati, dated July 29, 2004 and available in copy, which advance the present attribution. The scholar refers the work to Passerotti's late activity, defining it as "a splendid document of the last period of an artist who ranks among the great protagonists of the European sixteenth century."
The portrait, which has the dimensions of an altarpiece, can be placed into the typology of "family scenes in action", a portrait genre of Flemish origin that Passerotti spread in Bologna from the seventh decade of the sixteenth century. In particular, the painting has the function of celebrating the consecration to religious life of the young son of Girolamo Salamoni.