Simone Peterzano and Caravaggio? "The Deposition from the Cross", around 1585, Bernate Ticino, Milan

SIMONE PETERZANO (Bergamo,1535 - Milan,1599 approximately ) and CARAVAGGIO (Milan,1571 - Porto Ercole,1610), who trained as a painter under Simone Peterzano.

"The Deposition from the Cross",1585 approximately
Oil painting on lime-tree wood, 240 x 143 cm, width, 2,5 cm
Bernate Ticino (Milan). Saint George's Church.
Evening presentation of the restored work (by Carmelo Lo Sardo, restorer ).
www.losardorestauri.it

Bibliography:
Giovanni Agosti, Jacopo Stoppa e Marco Tanzi.
"Francesco De Tatti e altre storie.
Officina libraria, Milano 2011, pp. 38-39

In this book, professor Jacopo Stoppa, who has actually made the discovery of the painting, claims the work can only be attributed to
Simone Peterzano.

I am very grateful to Professor Jacopo Stoppa

In my presentation of the restoration works of "The Deposition from the Cross",a painting by Simone Peterzano, -1585 approximately - which is kept in Saint George's Church in Bernate Ticino (Milan), i explain the following hypothesis Caravaggio, who at the time was fourteen years old, might have contributed to Peterzano's work.

If we consider the figure of the angel we can easily see it is stylistically different from the other characters in the painting. The angel is pitifully holding Christ's body. The figure has all the typical features of a painter in his beginnings but it altready looks genial.

I reckon the angel is the germ of a stylistic and chromatic model which will be later improveder again in Merisi's early works.