Cristoforo Agosta, Attributed, Adoration of the Magi

Cristoforo Agosta

Attributed

Adoration of the Magi

Cremonese School

End of the 16./beginning of the 17. century

Oil on canvas, relined

195 x 159 cm, with frame 227 x 191 cm

Original baroque frame



The painting can be compared, both in terms of composition and the type of figures, with two works by the Cremonese artist Cristoforo Agosta, one of which is kept in Casalmaggiore Cathedral and the other in the Collegio della Beata Vergine in Cremona. Agosta, born in Casalmaggiore in 1570, was sent by his father to Cremona in 1586 to be part of the workshop of the painter Giovanni Battista Trotti, called Malosso, for three years. From 1597 onwards, there are no more records of the painter, who presumably died young. The work shown here reveals influences from Cremona and Parma, from the geographical and cultural area of Casalmaggiore. It could be an early work by Agosta or a painting by an artist of the Cremonese school who followed the models of local artists such as Malosso and Agosta. (Summary of an Italian expert report by the eminent art historian Cesare Alpini, Crema, 20.11.2010)