MARCO da SIENA 1525-1587

Oil painting, on canvas, attributed to MARCO da SIENA 1525-1587.The work is a version of the Adoration of the Shepherds, a theme tackled several times by the master. See the paintings with this subject preserved in Naples: Church of Gesù Vecchio, Church of San Severino and Sossio, Church of Santa Chiara, as well as the Capodimonte Museum. Also worth mentioning is the drawing preserved in the Louvre in Paris.

He was a pupil of Domenico Beccafumi, then moved to Rome, where he collaborated with Perin del Vaga and Daniele da Volterra. From 1557 onwards he was almost continuously in Naples, where he gained wide fame. His style was characterised by elements of Tuscan and Roman Mannerism: in particular, he drew on the compositional examples of Raphael, enlivened by the plasticity of the figures derived from the lesson of Michelangelo seen in Rome. Another important element in his stylistic formation was his encounter in Naples with the Spanish and Flemish schools, which brought a component of emotional pathos derived from their naturalism to the sacred scenes he painted. The sum of these heterogeneous experiences resulted in a complex style, with elongated and moved human figures reminiscent of the same stylistic results achieved by Hans von Aachen and Bartholomeus Spranger at the court of Prague. Marco Pino's works are preserved in Siena in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, the Chigi Lucarini Saracini Collection, the Fondazione del Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the National Museum of Capodimonte, Castel Sant'Angelo and the Galleria Borghese. In addition, countless works are scattered in churches in Naples and the surrounding area, Salerno, Caserta and in Apulia.

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