Un pavese in Liguria: conferme e proposte sul percorso di Lorenzo Fasolo tra Genova e Savona

The article analizes the activity between Genoa and Savona of Lorenzo Fasolo, a painter from Pavia, investigating components and evolution of his language. Besides affinities with other key players in the Ligurian Renaissance, such as Luca Baudo and Ludovico Brea, the study remarks parallelism with Gandolfino da Roreto, during the main steps of Lorenzo’s Ligurian production: from his arrival at the middle of the last decade of the 15th century, when he joined Lombard Renaissance elements to Mediterranean openings; during the first decade of the 16th century, when remembrances of Zenale appeared, along with constant memories from Foppa and Bergognone; until the proto-classical outcomes of his maturity. The essay focuses on a few key works (the Bisso Madonna, the Sauli Polyptych, the Adoration of the Child in Savona and the Genealogy of the Virgin at Louvre), examines some little-known paintings (such as an Adoration of the Child auctioned in 2015 and a predella with Stories of Joachim) and adds new attributions, to the artist himself (an Ascension of Jesus once in Bianco collection in Turin), or to his circle (pillars with Saints at the Nîmes Museum).