Saturday, June 11, 2016

COLONNA PALACE - APARTMENT OF PRINCESS ISABELLE (second part)

APPARTAMENTO DELLA PRINCIPESSA ISABELLE

ENTRANCE HALL
“Four views of the Villa di Capodimonte in Naples” 1840 by Annibale Angelini (1812/84)
ROOM OF THE CANOPY
St. Charles Borromeo lived here in the 60s of the sixteenth century
Family portraits including “Felice Orsini” by Scipione Pulzone (about 1550/98)
VANVITELLI ROOM
“Roman Landscapes” by Gaspar van Wittel (1653/1736)
PINK ROOM
Canvas “Landscape with Judgement of Paris” by Carlo Maratta (1625/1713) and Gaspard Dughet (1615/75)
Nine small works by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568/1625)
“Self Portrait” 1558 by Sofonisba Anguissola (about 1531/1626) a great Italian portraitist who lived almost 100 years
“Through the eclectic education of Bernardino Campi, Anguissola soberly felt the influence of the school of Raphael and Parmigianino, through Bernardino Gatti the art of Correggio. He painted mainly portraits of solid workmanship and considerable spontaneity (...), absorbing the preponderant influence of the Venetians, not separated from resonances of the greatest masters from Emilia and from Spain” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
ROOM OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM
Fresco to celebrate the marriage of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini “Fame, Flora, Gloria and Cupid” by Giacinto Gimignani (1606/81), Carlo Cesi and others
ROOM OF THE FOUNTAIN
Ceiling “old style” by Bernardino di Betto aka Pinturicchio (1454/1513)
“Sts. Maurilio and Paul with the Abbot Nicholas Roverella” about 1474 by Cosmè Tura
“Tura studied in Padua with Squarcione: his special reaction to the new Florentine art comes from there. He meditated Donatello and Mantegna known before importing in Ferrara his relentless curiosity. A peculiar care in the contours, in the narrow folds, the unreality of the colors that are a kind of challenge, the predilection for motives carefully analyzed and redundant, shells, garlands, dragons, crystal spirals similar to steel shavings, and of course armors. All elements, in short, of an imaginative and, so to speak, heraldic antiquity” (André Chastel)
Ancient “Statue of crocodile” third century AD
ROOM OF THE STORM
“Landscapes with storm” 1667/68 by Pieter Mulier aka Tempesta (1637/1701)
DUGHET ROOM
Ceiling by Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626)
On the walls beautiful tromp l'oeil frescoes by Gaspard Dughet (1615/75)
DINING ROOM
Frescoes on vault and lunettes by the same artists who decorated the Vatican Library under the direction of Giovanni Guerra (1544/1618) and Cesare Nebbia (1536/1614)
ROOM OF THE MASK
“Roman Floor” IV sec. AD from Bovillae

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