Presentation in the Temple

This drawing is completely pricked for transfer. It may have been used for a roundel in the predella or on a column of a polyptych, but given the size and subject matter, it could alternately have served as the template for embroidery on a liturgical vestment.

The old mount of the drawing once bore an attribution to Giorgio Schiavone, a pupil and assistant of Squarcione in Venice and Padua about whom little is known. He signed several paintings, now in London and Berlin, with OPUS SCLAVONI DISIPULI / SQUARCIONI or OPVS SCLAVONI DALMAT/ICI SQUARCIONI and is also identified as Juraj (or Gregorio) Ćulinovoć, Chiulinovich or Chulinovich as well as Giorgio di Tomaso Schiavone. Berenson attributes a group of about twenty paintings to Chulinovich, which exhibit the strong influence of Mantegna. He is not otherwise known as a draftsman, so it is difficult to sustain the old attribution of this drawing.