Sofonisba Anguissola e la Madonna dell'Itria. Problemi attributivi e prospettive di catalogazione critica

This contribution offers a new reading of the Madonna dell’Itria, preserved in the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Paternò (Catania), in light of the author’s recent attributional hypothesis involving Sofonisba Anguissola and Domenikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco. The study seeks to decipher the symbolic stratification of this complex Marian image as a reflection of the artistic experience of both painters. The painting is interpreted as a liminal space in which the biographical and stylistic trajectories of Anguissola and Theotokópoulos intersect, generating a visual synthesis of remarkable symbolic density. Within this iconographic crossroads, the encounter between the two artists is understood as both transformative and generative, reshaping their respective expressive identities.