“Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple” by Francesco
Solimena (1657/1747) the best pupil of Luca Giordano
“Preparatory
version for the fresco painted on the Counter façade of the Neapolitan Church
of Gesù in 1725. The scene, theatrical and complex, reveals the great skills of
Solimena painting a grand composition, in which monumental architecture is the
background to the interweaving of characters with many different poses and
expressions. The artist represents perfectly darting movements that emphasize
the vibrancy of light” (Official website of the Barberini Gallery -
www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it)
“Wedding contract” about 1752 and “Portrait of Father Giovannezio di Molina” by Gaspare
Traversi (1722/70)
“Among the
most interesting personalities of the eighteenth century in Naples. Pupil of
Francesco Solimena, he was in Rome since 1752. His paintings show interest in
nature and in Carracci's style and are aimed at a rigorous and sensitive
rendering of reality, through which there is a vein of irony featured in scenes
of everyday life” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
“Portrait of a lady” by Giuseppe
Bonito (1707/89)
“A pupil of
Francesco Solimena, Bonito is part of a generation of artists who determined
the cultural climate of the Neapolitan eighteenth century with strong points of
contact with the Spanish painting. In 1751 he was officially invested the
office of House Painter of the King (...). He became also academic of St. Luke
in 1752” (Lorenza Mochi Onori)
“Meeting of Cardinal Anton Felice Chigi Zondanari and
Philip V King of Spain”, “The grand master Marcantonio Zondanari receives the
Turkish flags”
and “Idolatry of Solomon” by Sebastiano Conca (1680/1764)
“Sebastiano
Conca studied in Naples at the school of Francesco Solimena, but his career
unfolded in Rome, where he assimilated the lessons of Carlo Maratta, who, with
his school, had a hegemony over Roman painting, and yet he managed to blend it
with his Neapolitan training rich of echoes of Luca Giordano, laying the
foundations of the Roman Rococo” (Lorenza Mochi Onori)
“The Martyrdom of St. Denis” by Corrado
Giaquinto (1703/66)
Denis was
the first bishop of Lutetia, today Paris
Tradition has
it that, during the persecution of Decius in about 250, after he had been
beheaded on the hill which, following this event, took the name of Montmartre
(mountain of the martyr), stood up, picked his head up and walked for 10 km
(6.2 miles) continuing preaching as if nothing had happened
“Within the
last Roman activity of the painter, in the period between 1949 and 1951,
numerous sketches are known, characterized by immediacy of execution and
density of material and color” (Lorenza Mochi Onori)
Corvi
Room - Characters of Myth and History
On the
walls, life-size figures in niches to imitate ancient sculptures:
Ciro, Sofonisba, Zenobia, Achilles, Silla, Tuzia, Scipio, Lucrezia,
Tullia, Faustina, Dido, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great
Decorations around the room with elegant friezes that evoke the inventions of older artworks by
Piranesi
The room
was painted in 1770 by Domenico Corvi
(1721/1803) from Viterbo for Princess Costanza Barberini Colonna di Sciarra
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