Vault: “Ship of the Argonauts with Jason
showing the Golden Fleece from Colchis” by Giuseppe
Passeri (1654/1714)
“Madonna and Child Enthroned with Sts. Peter and
Michael” by Lorenzo da Viterbo (about 1444/72)
“In this
painting, which comes from the church of S. Maria Maggiore in Cerveteri,
Federico Zeri, noting the hand of a coworker in the figure of St. Michael, of
lesser quality, believed that the cross above the inscription 'Laurentius
Jacobi da Viterbo 1472' would indicate that the painter's death had occurred.
This remains a key work to reconstruct the figure of the painter who looks to
Piero della Francesca and Melozzo as well as Ferrara paintings and Mantegna,
showing the variety of influences present in Lazio painting of the fifteenth
century” (Lorenza Mochi Onori)
“Nativity with Sts. Lawrence and Andrew” about 1483
“Antoniazzo,
still tied to tradition, was at the forefront - along with Tuscans, Umbrians,
Venetians and Flemish - in combining sacred images, landscapes and portraits.
He was the head of a busy workshop active in every field of artistic
production: icons, images for private devotion, ceremonial apparatuses;
narrative fresco cycles and altarpieces” (Official website of the Barberini
Gallery - www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it)
“Madonna and Child with Sts. Paul and Francis of
Assisi” about
1487 by Antonio Aquili aka Antoniazzo Romano
(about 1435-40/1508)
“The
conventionality of the iconography is, however, animated by the elegant
architectural solution of the pink throne defined by pilasters over which there
is a rich antiquarian decoration. (...) These decorative ornamentations recall
the works by Andrea Bregno and his workshop in the Roman funerary monuments of
the seventh and eighth decade of the fifteenth century. (...). The cartoon of
the Virgin and Child would be copied in the panel with the Madonna and Sts.
Francis and Anthony of Padua today at S. Antonio dei Portoghesi” (Anna
Cavallaro)
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