Girolamo Alibrandi

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Girolamo Alibrandi (* around 1470 in Messina ; † around 1524) was a Sicilian painter and is also called Il Raffaello da Messina .

life and work

Born in Messina in 1470, he trained as an artist at the school of his compatriot Salvo d'Antonio after completing his law studies. After the death of his father, he traveled to mainland Italy. In Milan he is said to have enjoyed direct lessons from Leonardo da Vinci . He then went to Rome and made friends with Raphael . Alibrando is said to have based his painting on his friend, for example in the layout of some figures in his main work Presentazione di Gesu al Tempio (1519). This closeness to Raffael earned him the second name Raffaello da Messina. In Milan he had evidently entered into a personal relationship with Cesare da Sesto , with whom he finally returned to Messina.

The main work of Alibrando is the "Presentazione di Gesu al Tempio", a temple scene, painted in 1519 for the Compagnia della Candelora in Messina. This oil painting (99 × 118 cm) originally hung in the cathedral in Messina . The picture shows the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, which she has just offered to Simeon, in the midst of a large retinue of temple visitors. Through the Corinthian columns of the arcades of the temple hall, the city of Jerusalem becomes visible with magnificent buildings and a wide background landscape. The “Purificazione della Santa Vergine” in the Cathedral of Messina is said to come from Alibrando.

literature

• Antonio Muñoz: Alibrando, Girolamo, called “Il Raffaello da Messina” . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 288–289 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Alibrandi, Girolamo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 2, Seemann, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-363-00115-0 , p. 396 f.

• Maria Teresa Barbera: Documenti inediti intorno alla vita e alle opere di Girolamo Alibrandi pittore messinese del '500. G. Panta, Patti 1950.
• Maria Teresa Barbera: Girolamo Alibrandi detto il Raffaello messinese. G. Panta, Patti 1950.
• Stefano Bottari:  Alibrandi, Girolamo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 2:  Albicante – Ammannati. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
• Francesca Campagna Cicala: Girolamo Alibrandi. Aggiunte e precisazioni. In: Quaderni dell'Istituto di storia dell'arte medievale e moderna Facoltà di lettere e filosofia Università di Messina. 11, 1987, ZDB -ID 193672-4 , pp. 5-18.
• Giovanni Molonia: La "Presentazione al Tempio" di Girolamo Alibrandi. Storia e lettura iconologica. In: Messenion d'oro. NS 5, 2005, ZDB -ID 2570222-1 , pp. 26-32.
• Angelo Tartuferi: Paintings and miniatures from the XIVth to the XVIIIth centuries (= Galerie Adriano Ribolzi. Catalogs 1). Centro Di, Florence 1990, ISBN 88-7038-186-2 , pp. 54-56.

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