A SPALLIERA WITH THE STORY OF SUSANNAH BY MARCO ZOPPO

The article aims to present the new purchase by The Royal Castle in Warsaw–Museum of a spalliera by Marco Zoppo. The work was first published by Paul Schubring in his catalogue of Italian secular painting Cassoni. Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance. Ein Beitrag zur Profanmalerei im Quattrocento in 1915. The publication by Berenson in 1968 of its pendant of unknown whereabouts – formerly in the Forbes Collection (London) and Galleria Luigi Bellini (Florence) – has enabled not only the identification of the subject of both paintings as Story of Susannah, but also their attribution to Marco Zoppo. The setting of the two spalliere was probably completed by two fragments first gathered and published by Roberto Longhi in 1940. They are of the same height and represent episodes from Shooting at Father’s Corpse in the Los Angeles County Museum and the second, now of unknown whereabouts, formerly in a private collection in Genoa.