The Popes
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Pius VI: The ancient city and the major works
“Portrait of Pope Pius VI” by the great painter from Lucca
1775 Pompeo Batoni (1708/87)
“Batoni,
going back to the Roman tradition of the early eighteenth century, but not
forgetting the new impulses from French and English schools, creates a new way
to portray: the perfect physiognomic rendering combines psychological analysis
of the character, often depicted in a setting that, in objects and in the
landscape, reminds of his intellectual interests” (Anna Maria De Strobel)
Paintings “The abduction of Helen” 1784 and “The Death of Achilles” 1785 by the Scottish Gavin Hamilton (1723/98)
ROOM 2
Pius VI: The ancient city and the major works
“Allegory of the Museum Pius
Clementine in the Vatican” about 1788 by Bernardino Nocchi
(1741/1812)
Tempera on
canvas model for the decoration of the ceiling of the Sala del Cantone in the Palazzo
della Consulta. Painting, Architecture and Sculpture are invited
by the Genius of the Arts to visit the Museum Pius Clementine
“Pius VI visiting
the Pontine Marshes” 1786 by Abraham Louis Rodolphe
Ducros
ROOM 3
The papal court
“Terracotta bust of Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy” 1635 by François
Duquesnoy (1597/1643)
“Profile portraits of
Innocent XIII Conti (1721/24) and of Cardinal Ludovico Sergardi” after 1724 by Pietro Bracci (1700/73) or Filippo
Della Valle (1698/1768)
“Terracotta bust of
Innocent XII Pignatelli (1691/1700)” 1694/96 maybe
by Domenico
Guidi (1625/1701)
“The bust,
which reveals the sculptor's ability to capture the facial features within the
limits of an idealizing style, was placed in 1818 on the Marforio Fountain in
Piazza del Campidoglio, under the inscription for the inauguration of the
Museum of Sculpture in the Palazzo Nuovo, opened in 1734 by Clement XII” (Sign
posted in the museum by the work)
“Marble bust of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni” 1670/80 maybe by Domenico Guidi (1625/1701)
He was pope
for a year and a half with the name of Alexander VIII (1689/91)
“Terracotta Bust of Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi degli
Albertoni”
about 1698 by the Florentine Lorenzo Merlini (1666/1745)
“A stylistic
language rich in refined eclecticism, borrowed mainly from the Tuscan and Roman
schools. If typical of G.B. Foggini (his Florentine teacher) are, in fact, the
shape and the anatomical definition of the figure, typical of Lorenzo Ottoni,
leading figure of the Roman sculptural portraiture in the late Baroque age,
appear to be the strong expressive characterization of the face, deferential,
markedly, to the style common in Rome between Bernini’s death (1680) and the
eighteenth century” (Sandro Bellesi - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Treccani)
ROOM 4
The papal court
“Corpus Christi procession in St. Peter's Square” about 1646 by an anonymous artist of the seventeenth-century before the
construction of the colonnade of Bernini with the bell tower still on the
façade
ROOM 5
The papal court
“Portrait of Pope Clement XI Albani (1700/21)” about 1710 and “Innocent X Pamphilj (1644/55) gives the cardinal's
hat to the Fabio Chigi future Pope Alexander VII” 1724 by Pier
Leone Ghezzi (1674/1755)
“The
portrait of Clement XI is considered one of the most significant examples of
the portraits of the artist, based on intensive physiognomic characterization,
almost caricatured traits, and a search for immediacy of gestures and
expressions, accentuated by the rapid treatment of the subject and by the
fringed painting” (Brief Guide to the Museum of Rome)
“Portrait of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (1740/58)
with Cardinal Gonzaga” about 1755 Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691/1765)
“Portrait
of Cardinal Giacomo Rospigliosi” about 1669 maybe by Carlo
Maratta (1625/1713)
“Portrait
of Cardinal Giovan Francesco Ginetti” about 1681 maybe by G.B. Gaulli aka Baciccio (1639/1709)
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