Wednesday, April 20, 2016

BRASCHI PALACE - MUSEUM OF ROME (sixth part)

Microcosm of Beauty
ROOM 11
Engravings and miniatures in plaster
Four statues: “Farnese Hercules”, “Danaide”, “Melpomene” and “Faun” by Giovanni Volpato (1735/1803)
Terracotta statue “Achilles dragging the body of Hector” 1833 by Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781/1835)
“Portrait of Caterina Giustiniani” about 1815/20 by Gaspare Landi (1756/1830)
“Portrait of the engraver Pietro Girometti” about 1831 by Francesco Podesti (1800/95)
“Portrait of the painter Francesco Podesti” 1870 by Francesco Gai (1835/1917)
Francesco Gai was a pupil of Francesco Podesti, married his nephew Guendolina and helped him in his great work which lasted nine years in the Room of the Immaculate Conception in the Vatican
“Self-Portrait” by Pietro Gagliardi (1809/1990)

The Code of Fashion

ROOM 12
Eighteenth century ceremony clothes for men and women

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