Resumen de Un centone da Michelangelo e Raffaello

Pietro Moioli, Claudio Seccaroni

• The attribution of the "Holy Family" -number 502 in the inventory under trust of the Doria Pamphilj Collection- has been changed through the years from Michelangelo to Daniele da Volterra, and an anonymous 16th-century Roman artist. The painting looks like a reworking of the "Madonna of the Rose" by Raphael in the Prado, but X-radiographs reveal a much more complex situation in which reworkings and pentimenti are superimposed. It is as if the author of this "Holy Family" used the Raphaelesque model as a starting point and was obliged to return to it, after seeking alternative solutions. Hence, what has emerged from the X-radiographs is interpreted in relation to the model in Madrid and the many copies and other works deriving from it, to more clearly understand the motives behind the development and execution of the Doria Pamphilj painting, as well the way in which the composition was built up.