Milan Old Master Paintings Auction
Published November 17th, 2008
Sotheby’s Milan will hold an auction on Monday 17 November 2008, 6.00 p.m. The catalogue – consisting of over 140 lots – opens with a pictorial group of Fondo oro panels among which is a striking gold-ground painting by Salomone de’ Grassi, The Trinity, commissioned by the Visconti family. Salomone, a renowned miniaturist and painter, is cited among the most significant Viscontean artists, together with his father Giovannino, from whom he inherited the post of draughtsman and painter of the “Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano” (Venerable Workshop of the Duomo of Milan), while working simultaneously on a number of illuminated manuscripts commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti for his personal library and for the Certosa (Charterhouse) of Pavia. The Trinity (71×40 cm.) has been estimated € 50,000-70,000.
