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Lorenzo Sabatini<br />

Bologne 1530 – Rome 1576<br />

9<br />

Saint <strong>Jean</strong> l’Évangéliste<br />

Pierre noire, plume et encre brune <str<strong>on</strong>g>sur</str<strong>on</strong>g> papier bleu, rehauts <strong>de</strong> blanc.<br />

Filigrane échelle (Briquet 5926 ou 5927)<br />

245 x 235 mm (9 5 /8 x 9 1 /4 in.)<br />

Bibliographie<br />

Jürgen Winkelmann, « Lorenzo Sabatini <strong>de</strong>tto Lorenzino da Bologna », Pittura bolognese <strong>de</strong>l ’500, sous la<br />

directi<strong>on</strong> <strong>de</strong> V. Fortunati Pierant<strong>on</strong>io, volume 2, Bologne 1986, p. 625.<br />

Vraisemblablement formé dans sa ville natale sous<br />

l’égi<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> Prospero F<strong>on</strong>tana, ainsi que <strong>de</strong> Pellegrino<br />

Tibaldi qui lui transmit l’esthétique m<strong>on</strong>umentale<br />

<strong>de</strong> Michel-Ange, Lorenzo Sabatini, parfois appelé<br />

Lorenzino da Bologna, est un c<strong>on</strong>temporain d’Orazio<br />

Samacchini, avec lequel il est souvent c<strong>on</strong>f<strong>on</strong>du,<br />

comme le remarquait déjà Carlo Cesare Malvasia<br />

dans s<strong>on</strong> ouvrage Felsina Pittrice (1678). Ses<br />

œuvres <strong>de</strong> jeunesse s<strong>on</strong>t fortement marquées par la<br />

traditi<strong>on</strong> picturale locale mais aussi par l’élégance<br />

du Parmesan, comme le dém<strong>on</strong>tre La Vierge à l’Enfant<br />

avec <strong>de</strong>s saints du Museo di Santo Stefano à<br />

Bologne ou Judith <strong>de</strong> la Banca <strong>de</strong>l M<strong>on</strong>te <strong>de</strong> Bologne.<br />

Cependant, c’est probablement Giorgio Vasari<br />

qui exerça l’influence la plus déterminante <str<strong>on</strong>g>sur</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

le peintre en l’employant, ainsi que Prospero F<strong>on</strong>tana,<br />

à la réalisati<strong>on</strong> <strong>de</strong>s décors du Palazzo Vecchio<br />

en l’h<strong>on</strong>neur du mariage <strong>de</strong> Francesco i er <strong>de</strong> Médicis<br />

et <strong>de</strong> <strong>Jean</strong>ne d’Autriche en 1565. Sabatini réalisa<br />

ensuite les fresques du corridor reliant la salle <strong>de</strong>s<br />

Cinquento à celle du Dugento, peignant sous la resp<strong>on</strong>sabilité<br />

<strong>de</strong> Vasari les figures allégoriques <strong>de</strong> la<br />

Pru<strong>de</strong>nce et <strong>de</strong> la Justice ainsi qu’un grand nombre<br />

<strong>de</strong> grotesques et d’emblèmes. Giorgio Vasari le<br />

compte parmi les huit artistes « étrangers » (forestieri)<br />

inscrits à l’Académie du <strong>de</strong>ssin <strong>de</strong> Florence 1 .<br />

De retour à Bologne entre 1566 et 1572, il<br />

travailla aux décors <strong>de</strong>s églises Santa Maria <strong>de</strong>lla<br />

Grazie, la Chiesa <strong>de</strong>lla Morte, San Martino et San<br />

Giacomo Maggiore et forma quelques élèves parmi<br />

lesquels le plus important fut sans doute Denys<br />

Calvaert, le futur maître <strong>de</strong>s Carrache. En 1572,<br />

l’accessi<strong>on</strong> au trône p<strong>on</strong>tifical du cardinal bol<strong>on</strong>ais<br />

Bu<strong>on</strong>compagni, sous le nom <strong>de</strong> Grégoire xiii,<br />

encouragea l’arrivée à Rome <strong>de</strong> nombreux artistes<br />

bol<strong>on</strong>ais, d<strong>on</strong>t Sabatini qui travailla avec Vasari et<br />

Samacchini à la fresque <strong>de</strong> la Sala Regia du Vatican<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>sur</str<strong>on</strong>g> le thème <strong>de</strong> la victoire <strong>de</strong> Lepante. L’influence<br />

<strong>de</strong> Raphaël, déjà forte à Bologne, s’accentua chez<br />

Presumably trained in his native Bologna by Prospero<br />

F<strong>on</strong>tana as well as Pellegrino Tibaldi, through whom<br />

he became familiar with m<strong>on</strong>umental aesthetics<br />

of Michelangelo, Lorenzo Sabatini, sometimes<br />

called Lorenzino da Bologna, was c<strong>on</strong>temporary<br />

of Orazio Samacchini and has been often c<strong>on</strong>fused<br />

with him, which Carlo Cesare Malvasia had already<br />

menti<strong>on</strong>ed in his Felsina Pittrice (1678). Sabatini’s<br />

early works were str<strong>on</strong>gly influenced by the local<br />

pictorial traditi<strong>on</strong> and the elegance of Parmigianino,<br />

which is <strong>de</strong>m<strong>on</strong>strated by his Mad<strong>on</strong>na and Child<br />

Enthr<strong>on</strong>ed with Two Saints in the Museo di Santo<br />

Stefano in Bologna and Judith in the Banca <strong>de</strong>l<br />

M<strong>on</strong>te in the same city. However, the most <strong>de</strong>cisive<br />

influence probably came from Giorgio Vasari, when<br />

in 1565 Sabatini went to Florence with Prospero<br />

F<strong>on</strong>tana to work for him <strong>on</strong> the <strong>de</strong>corati<strong>on</strong> in the<br />

Palazzo Vecchio for the wedding of Francesco<br />

I <strong>de</strong>’ Medici and Joanna of Austria. He worked<br />

<strong>on</strong> the frescoes in the corridor between the Sala<br />

<strong>de</strong>i Cinquento and the Sala <strong>de</strong>i Dugento un<strong>de</strong>r<br />

Vasari’s directi<strong>on</strong> painting the allegorical figures of<br />

Pru<strong>de</strong>nce and Justice and a number of grotesques<br />

and emblems. Giorgio Vasari counted him am<strong>on</strong>g<br />

the eight foreign stu<strong>de</strong>nts (forestieri) enrolled at the<br />

Florentine Acca<strong>de</strong>mia <strong>de</strong>l Disegno. 1<br />

Up<strong>on</strong> his return to Bologna between 1566 and<br />

1572, Sabatini worked <strong>on</strong> six <strong>de</strong>corati<strong>on</strong>s in the<br />

church of Santa Maria <strong>de</strong>lle Grazie, the chiesa<br />

<strong>de</strong>lla Morte, the San Martino and the San Giacomo<br />

Maggiore. He also trained several pupils, including<br />

Denys Calvaert, the most important am<strong>on</strong>g them,<br />

particularly because he was the master of Carracci.<br />

In 1572, the accessi<strong>on</strong> to the papal thr<strong>on</strong>e of the<br />

Bolognese Cardinal Bu<strong>on</strong>compagni, who took the<br />

name of Gregory xiii, encouraged many Bolognese<br />

artists to go to Rome, including Sabatini who<br />

worked with Vasari and Samacchini in the Vatican,<br />

<strong>on</strong> the fresco of the Sala Regia celebrating the<br />

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