Federica De Giambattista

Stefano «plebanus» di Sant’Agnese has been ignored by the art critics for a very long time, starting with the Venetian scholars of the beginning of the 19th century, who were the first to be interested and to get involved in the historical reconstruction of the Venetian lagoon painting tradition. A major role for the non-recognition of Stefano was played also by the wrong interpretation of the adjective «plebanus», which made many art historians and art lovers believe that he had been a clergyman...