Ever since, the painting has been considered irrevocably lost, as scholars have been unable to identify it or trace its current location ( Costanzi 2005, n.
Commissioned in Scottivoli’s will, the altarpiece was documented in various archival and historiographical sources up until its removal from the church of San Francesco in the late 18th century. One of the paintings originally displayed at the church of San Francesco delle Scale that still eludes scholarship, is the altarpiece that once adorned the private chapel of Francesco Scottivoli, a nobleman who died in 1490 and was buried in the convent’s grounds. Yet for all these valuable contributions, numerous works of art from San Francesco and other Anconitan churches still remain missing, unidentified and decontextualized from their original settings.
These studies have helped advance our knowledge of San Francesco’s pre-renovation state, at the same time allowing us to reconstruct the oeuvre of painters who worked at the church, such as Maestro Antonio da Firenze or his son, Nicola di Maestro Antonio d’Ancona. Building on the studies of Federico Zeri, Pietro Zampetti, Luigi Centanni and Sandro Corradini, scholars such as Costanza Costanzi, Marcello Mastrosanti, Andrea de Marchi, and Matteo Mazzalupi have managed to trace and rediscover dispersed artworks from Marchigian churches, including several paintings from the church of San Francesco delle Scale ( Zeri 1949 Centanni 1950 Zampetti 1991 Corradini 1990 Costanzi 2005 Mastrosanti 2007 De Marchi et al.
In recent years, considerable research has been conducted in order to identify artworks alienated from the Marche region, map their diaspora and eventually reunite their fragmented pieces.
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