Vault: in the center “Creation of the World” 1769 by Laurent
Pécheux (1729/1821), in the frame “Stories of Adam and Eve” Nicolò Ricciolini (1687/1772)
They
replaced a fresco by Viviani destroyed the year before by a fire caused by
lightning
“Circe
transforming Pico into a woodpecker”, “Ascension of Christ”, “Adoration of the Magi”, “Sts.
Anthony of Padua, Anthony the Great and Cecilia” and “Vestal Claudia Quinta towing a boat with the statue
of Cybele”
about 1535, all works by Benvenuto Tisi aka Garofalo
(about 1481/1559)
“This
painting celebrates the female chastity through the narration of an episode
recounted in Ovid's Fasti. The Vestal Claudia, accused of infidelity, proved
her innocence by moving from the mouth of the Tiber the ship carrying the
statue of Cybele from Phrygia. In the ship there was the black stone as a
pledge of the fate of Rome in the Second Punic War. The Vestal implored the
goddess to help her and Cybele gave her superhuman strength” (Official website
of the Barberini Gallery - www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it)
“Benvenuto
Tisi was a friend of Giorgione, Titian, Giulio Romano, Raphael, the latter
known in Rome in 1512 (...). Thanks to the influences of these artists,
Benvenuto Tisi managed to bring out the unique ability to blend new soft colors
of Venetian painting and the refined classicism of Raphael, so as to become one
of the most appreciated painters by the kings Alfonso I and Ercole II d'Este.
Vasari tells how he particularly appreciate Garofalo's ability to synthesize,
even calling it 'Modern'. For fifty years then Garofalo painted, with solutions
of striking originality, enchanted Madonnas, saints, children, cherubs, animals
and characters that seem to come from stories by Ariosto” (Carole Dazzi -
www.artericerca.com)
Room
XV - Painters from the Veneto Region
Vault: “Creation of Angels” by Andrea Camassei (1602/49) pupil of Domenichino. He was
the favorite painter of the Barberini family
“Agony in
the Garden”, “Resurrection of Lazarus”, “Massacre of the Innocents” and “Christ
carried to the tomb” by Ippolito Scarsella aka Scarsellino
(1551/1620)
“Agony of
Christ in Gethsemane” by Leandro da Ponte aka Leandro
Bassano (1557/1622) son of the more famous Jacopo Bassano
“Sacred
Conversation with Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria” 1524 by Lorenzo
Lotto (about 1480/1556)
“It is
interesting to note the detail of the medallion hanging from the waist of the
dress of St. Catherine which is one of the symbols of the symbolic significance
typical of Lotto's works. The winged cherub shown is a theme dear to the
painter (...). The theme of Wisdom and Justice, alluded to by the cherub with
his feet on the scale, is well suited to the learned saint and is here combined
with a particular assortment of clothes and jewelry for which Lotto had careful
care and for which he often required a separate compensation” (Lorenza Mochi
Onori)
“Sacred Conversation” about 1528 by Giovanni Busi aka il Cariani (about 1485/1548)
“Christ and the adulteress” about 1547 by Jacopo Robusti aka Tintoretto (1518/94)
“Tintoretto
did not hesitate to turn every biblical episode into a scene he could have seen
in his life, nor hesitated to show in it his emotions. His concept of the human
form was gigantic. The effect it must have produced on his contemporaries, and
that most of his work has on us is of wonderful truth as well as of impetuous
vigor and strength. The figures, although so colossal, are so full of energy
and such spontaneous movement. The effects of perspective, light and atmosphere
bind the figures so much that the eye adapts itself immediately to those
dimensions and we are made partakers of strength and health of heroic
proportions” (Bernard Berenson)
“St.
Dominic penitent” by Domenico Robusti aka Tintoretto
(1560/1635) son of the more famous Jacopo
“Massacre
of the Innocents” by Jacopo Negretti aka Jacopo Palma
the Younger (1544/1628)
“Venus and Adonis” by Tiziano
Vecellio (about 1490/1576)
“Copy of the
prototype in the Prado in Madrid and painted for King Philip II. The myth is
taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses: the scene depicts the moment when Venus in
vain tries to prevent Adonis from hunting, aware of the tragic fate that awaits
the young man, who shortly thereafter would be mortally wounded by a wild boar”
(Official website of the Barberini Gallery -
www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it)
“Lute Player” about 1510 by Andrea Solario (about 1465/1524)
“Sts. John and Bartholomew with
patrons” by
Giovanni Luteri aka Dosso Dossi (about
1486/1542)
“He was an
elegant interpreter of the court culture of the Po Valley in the Renaissance.
He worked almost exclusively in the court of the Este Dukes of Ferrara. (...)
The art of Dossi has a personal aspect: the figures, burned by the sun on the
compact and dense pictorial surfaces, are intended to be dramatic effects, in
contrast of colors and artistic that renders them with no gradations of light
and shadow” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
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