The 18th edition of "Unseen Brera" involves two painters from Siena in the late 1400s, Pietro Orioli and Guidoccio Cozzarelli. These two figures have long been confused with each other.
The 18th edition of “Unseen Brera” involves two painters from Siena in the late 1400s, Pietro Orioli and Guidoccio Cozzarelli. These two figures have long been confused with each other.
The panel at Brera portraying the Madonna with Child and Two Angels, previously attributed to Guidoccio Cozzarelli, is now thought to be by his slightly younger colleague Pietro Orioli.
During his brief career Pietro Orioli was the most innovative of the Sienese painters active in the last quarter of the 1400s, a period of great interest in spatial qualities and the use of perspective to depict the works of architecture that form the context for the figures.