Resumen de Une nouvelle attribution à Francesco Curradi: "Le retour du fils prodigue" du Musée National de Szczecin
Dariusz Kacprzak, Michal Litwinowicz
This painting, related to the Florentine School of the first half of the 17th century, is owned by the National Museum in Szczecin and was previously in the collection of the pre-war German City Museum of Szczecin. However, the history of this paintng, at the current stage of provenance research, despite emerging hypotheses and relations between Florence and Berlin, Silesia or Pomerania, is still unclear. This large work presents the key event of the Biblical parable from the Gospel according to Luke. The attribution to Francesco Curradi is the result of careful formal and stylistic studies of his paintings, whose creation was related to the influence of the art of Guercino and Matteo Rosselli, and above all after meticulous comparative analyses of other works by Curradi, renowned master of the Counter Reformation. Dating the works between 1617 and the early 1630s remains merely a suggestion as there are no archival traces and the research is forced to face numerous difficulties in determining the time of creation of the works by the Florentine artist based on the development of his individual painting style.
