Abstract
Summary Present article discusses a hitherto unknown painting by the Flemish-Venetian Paolo Fiammingo, which has recently surfaced in a Hungarian private collection. Following Mason Rinaldi's monographic study, Paolo Fiammingo has been esteemed as an original representative of Venetian late mannerism, who played an outstanding role in the dissemination of autonomous landscape in Italy. The newly discovered painting has a version in the Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, dated to around 1590. Its subject matter has been erroneously cited in the literature as The Annunciation to Joachim and Anne. In fact, the two pictures render a theme, The Doubt of Joseph, of which no other representation in Venetian cinquecento has come down to us. Actually, it was Zsuzsa Urbach who published a fundamental article about the emergence of this subject matter around 1400. In the Budapest version Joseph's figure is more emphatic as compared to the landscape, while in the exemplar in Scotland the landscape gets a major role. The difference between the two versions shows the painter's double attachment to the Flemish and Italian traditions. The composition may have been influenced by an engraving of Raphael Sadeler invented by Marten de Vos.
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