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Monday, May 30, 2016

CARPEGNA PALACE - GALLERY OF THE ACADEMY OF St. LUKE (third part)

SOME OF THE MASTERPIECES EXHIBITED OR KEPT IN STORAGE
Paintings
Fresco representing a “Putto” maybe by Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) (1483/1520) to whom it is also traditionally assigned the painting “St. Luke painting the Virgin Mary”
“Annunciation to the Shepherds” by Jacopo Da Ponte aka Jacopo Bassano (about 1510/92)
“Polish Prince” and “Virgin Mary and Child with Angels Musician” by Antoon Van Dyck (1599/1641)
“Nymphs crown Abundance” by Peter Paul Rubens (1577/1640)
“Judith and Holofernes” by G.B. Piazzetta (1683/1754)
“The artistic expression of Piazzetta was the result of extraordinary intensity of feeling, not diluted, but deliberately concentrated in dense and short summaries of painting. In fact Piazzetta, although Venetian by birth, education and art, seems to have wanted to pursue a tantalizingly mirage of plastic perfection: so that his work ranged, because of its inherent extreme difficulty, between the highest pinnacles of art and the disappointment of not reaching the desired results. Technically, the painter is distinguished by the Venetians of his time for a strong unusual draughtsmanship, although his is a pictorial design, without anything of linear in itself. It would be enough as evidence to remind how he was the greatest drawer of the eighteenth century” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
“Self-Portrait” by Federico Zuccari (about 1542/1609)
“Portrait of Pietro Bernini” maybe by his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598/1680)
“Love joking”, “Bacchus and Ariadne” and “Sorrowful Madonna” by Guido Reni (1575/1642)
“Portrait of Pope Clement XI Albani (1700/21)”, “Glory of Angels”, “Madonna and Child” and “The Birth of John the Baptist” by G.B. Gaulli aka Baciccio (1639/1709)
Eight paintings including “Landscapes” by Salvator Rosa (1615/73)
Oil on copper “Virgin and St. Francis” copy from the church S. Maria della Vittoria by Domenico Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641)
“Portrait of Ippolito Riminaldi”, “Portrait of Marino Corner” and “St. Jerome” Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) (about 1490/1576)
“The singer” and “Tarquin killing Lucretia” by Guido Cagnacci (1601/63)
Three paintings with “Roman Ruins” including “The Archaeologist” 1749 by Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691/1765)
“Self Portrait” by Lavinia Fontana (1552/1614)
“Madonna and Child” by G.B. Salvi aka Sassoferrato (1609/85)
“Venus and Cupid” by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri aka Guercino (1591/1666)
“St. Bartholomew”, “St. Andrew” and “Portrait of a Woman” by Alessandro Allori aka Bronzino (1533/1607) a student of Agnolo di Cosimo aka Bronzino
“Rest on the Flight into Egypt” by Federico Fiori aka Barocci (1535/1612)
“Jael killing Sisera”, “Virgin in prayer” and twelve portraits by Carlo Maratta (1625/1713)
“The Plague” by Mattia Preti (1613/99)
“Bacchanal” and “Immaculate Conception” by Corrado Giaquinto (1703/66)
Five paintings including “Cupid and Psyche” and “St. Benedict in the bush” 1694/95 by Benedetto Luti (1666/1724)
Four paintings by Francesco Trevisani (1656/1746)
“Faustulus entrusts Romulus and Remus to Larentia” about 1739 by Jean François de Troy (1679/1752)
“Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine” by Sebastiano Conca (1680/1764)
“Portrait of the English painter John Parker”, “Christ with St. Margaret of Cortona” and “Self-Portrait” by Marco Benefial (1684/1764)
“The simplicity of the representation (of this self-portrait by Benefial), which focuses on the individual, as it appears, ignoring attributes and ornaments, seems to be an important element of identification, together with the fiery attitude, a little contemptuous and his character shown without fear and uncertainties. A probable date for the painting is the middle of the second decade of the eighteenth century, showing the sitter here when he was about forty years old. Regarding the revolutionary art of the Roman artist Evelina Borea spoke 'of a strong and passionate naturalism absolutely innovative in those years in Rome', ‘of singular naturalistic clarity' and 'of a clarification of the detail, never giving up to decorative frills' (in E. Borea, Benefial Marco, DBI, 8, Rome, 1966, pp. .467), elements that we can fully relate to the work here examined” (Antonello Cesareo - Website of the Academy of St. Luke www.accademiasanluca.it)
“Synagogue” by the English William Hogarth (1697/1764)
“Portrait of the father Gaspar van Wittel” by Luigi Vanvitelli (1700/73)
“Allegory of Gratitude” 1706 by Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674/1755)
“The painting became part of the academic collections as 'joining gift' by Pier Leone Ghezzi. Starting from the oldest statutes of the Society, in fact, it was prescribed that each new member at the time of appointment would donate an essay of his art as a gift to the academic collections. (...) The iconography of the 'Gratitude' is derived from the 'Iconology' by Cesare Ripa. (...) The inscription on the table and the presence of the evergreen juniper allude to the durability of memory. On the day of admission of Pier Leone Ghezzi to the Academy was present Giuseppe, his father who, as the sources mention, played an important role in the education of his son” (Paola Picardi)
“Death of the Virgin Mary” by Francesco Coghetti (1801/75)
“Cathedral of Orvieto” by Annibale Angelini (1812/84)
“Funeral of Julius Caesar” and “Self-Portrait” by Pietro Gagliardi (1809/90)
“Portrait of Marianna Waldestein of Santa Cruz” by Andrea Appiani (1754/1817)
“Ulysses at the court of Alcinous” and “Triumphant Athlete” by Francesco Hayez (1791/1882)
“Self Portrait” by the Dutchman naturalized Briton Laurens Alma-Tadema (1836/1912)
“He first painted subject of medieval German history, but after a trip to Italy in 1863, he turned instead to subjects of ancient history. In 1870 he settled in London and specialized in scenes of Rome, which received great success: effects of artificial figures seen against polished marbles, illusionistic skills playing textiles, meat, metals” (Enciclopedia Treccani)
“Naked Woman” 1900 by Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860/1932)
“Portrait of a Woman” by Scipione Vannutelli (1834/94)
Three watercolors by Enrico Coleman (1846/1911)
“Return from fishing” by Umberto Coromaldi (1870/1948)
“Farmer” and “Self-Portrait” 1958 by Giacomo Balla (1871/1958)
“The Philosopher” 1954 by Carlo Carrà (1881/1966)
“Portrait of a Woman” by Tranquillo Cremona (1837/78)
Sketch of “The Deposition” by Adolfo De Carolis (1874/1928)
“Female friends reading” and “Self-Portrait” by Ercole Drei (1886/1973)
THERE ARE ALSO PAINTINGS BY:
Giovanni Antonio Canal aka Canaletto (1697/1768), Jacopo Negretti aka Jacopo Palma il Giovane (1544/1628), Paris Bordon (1500/71), Ciro Ferri (1634/89), Orazio Borgianni (1578/1616), Marcello Venusti (about 1512/79), Nicolas Poussin (1594/1665), Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610/62), Luigi Garzi (1638/1721), Gaspard Dughet (1615/75), Rosalba Carriera (1675/1757), Giuseppe Chiari (1654/1727), Paul Brill (1554/1626), Lazzaro Baldi (about 1624/1703), Jacques Courtois aka Borgognone (1628/79) e Guillaume Courtois (1628/79) both known as Borgognone, Giacomo Zoboli (1681/1767), Giovanni Odazzi (1663/1731), Giacomo Triga (1674/1746), Gaetano Lapis (1706/76), Ludovico Gimignani (1643/97) e suo padre Giacinto Gimignani (1606/81), Pier Francesco Mola (1612/66), Giuseppe Ghezzi (1634/1721), Placido Costanzi (1702/59), Giuseppe Passeri (1654/1714), Nicolò Ricciolini (1687/1772), Laurent Pécheux (1729/1821), Domenico Corvi (1721/1803), Pierre Subleyras (1699/1749), Etienne Parrocel (1696/1774), Gaspare Landi (1756/1830), Giuseppe Cesari aka Cavalier d'Arpino (1568/1640), Jan Frans Van Bloemen aka Orizzonte (1662/1749), Gaspar van Wittel (1653/1736), Anton von Maron (1733/1808), Jean-Baptiste Wicar (1762/1834), Vincenzo Camuccini (1771/1844), Francesco Podesti (1800/95), Alessandro Capalti (1807/78), Pio Joris (1843/1921), Francesco Grandi (1831/91), Silverio Capparoni (1831/1907), Tommaso Minardi (1787/1871), Ludovico Seitz (1844/1908), Ludovico Stern (1709/77), Giulio Bargellini (1896/1936), Cesare Mariani (1826/1901), Antonio Mancini (1852/1930), Fausto Pirandello (1899/1975) and other

“Portrait of Napoleon as First Consul” by Antonio Canova (1757/1822)
“Bust of a Woman” by Emilio Greco (1913/95)
“Self-Portrait” by Ettore Ximenes (1855/1926)
“Female Head (Portrait of Lalla)” by Ercole Drei (1886/1973)
“Portrait of Francesco Podesti” by Michele Tripisciano (1860/1913)
In addition bronzes by Venanzo Crocetti (1913/2003), Filippo Cifariello (1864/1936), Francesco Nagni (1897/1977) and others
Relief “Leo XI Medici (1605) received the abjuration of Henry IV” model for the monument in the Basilica of St. Pietro by Alessandro Algardi (1598/1654)
Group “Achilles and Penthesilea” 1773 by Vincenzo Pacetti (1746/1820)
“Perseus freeing Andromeda” 1786 by the Frenchman Joseph Chinard (1756/1813)
THERE ARE ALSO TERRA COTTA WORKS BY:
Pietro Bracci (1700/73), Filippo Della Valle (1698/1768), Antonio Della Bitta (1807/about 1879), Ettore Ferrari (1845/1929), Carlo Fontana (1865/1956), G.B. Maini (1690/1752), Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1644/1725) and Ercole Rosa (1846/93)

Saturday, May 14, 2016

CARPEGNA PALACE - GALLERY OF THE ACADEMY OF St. LUKE (second part)

GALLERIA DELL’ACCADEMIA DI S. LUCA

There are more than 1,000 paintings, about 300 sculptures, about 1500 drawings and a collection of prints and medals, some shown to the public, most in storage
Room of Academic Education
Selection of the numerous works of art by famous and not so famous artists who were annually presented and awarded at the closing ceremony of the public academic competitions at the Capitoline Hill in the eighteenth and nineteenth century
Collection of Plaster Casts
Opened in 2008
Five casts including bas-relief “Socrates defends Alcibiades at the Battle of Potidea” and “Portrait of Clement XIII Rezzonico (1758/69)” 1784/86 by Antonio Canova (1757/1822)
Seven casts including “Ganymede and the Eagle” 1817 by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)
Two casts by Pietro Tenerani (1789/1869)
Also works by the Dutchman Mathieu Kessels (1784/1836), the Welsh pupil of Canova John Gibson (1790/1866), the German Emil Wolff (1802/79), Attilio Selva (1888/1970), Bernardo Tacca (1780/1826) and Giulio Tadolini (1849/1918)
Cabinet of Drawings
Three sets of tables on the study of perspective, anatomy, and the system of architectural orders, all dating back to the second half of the seventeenth century
Group of architectural drawings, spectacular in terms of design but also for the techniques of graphic representation, which documents the practice of donating samples to the institution, by statute, by the newly elected academic
Confidential Cabinet
Paintings from the Pinacoteca Capitolina (Capitoline Art Gallery) whose subjects in 1823 were judged 'not decent for being seen publicly' and then removed from the rooms, with the exception of the great Bacchus and Ariadne by Guido Reni, who was exhibited until 1841 and it is now located along the main staircase
These “scandalous” paintings were placed temporarily in a 'confidential cabinet' before being donated, between 1836 and 1845, to the Accademia di S. Luca for educational purposes
Collection of Works by Contemporary Academic Masters
The collections include the works of young artists deemed worthy of the prize competitions organized over the centuries by the Accademia di S. Luca
Mascarino Fund
253 architectural drawings, 150 of which related to Roman buildings, from the workshop of Ottaviano Nonni aka Ottaviano Mascherino (1524/1606), Prince of the Academy in 1604
Historical Archive and Sarti Library
Over 42,000 books donated to the City of Rome in 1877 by the favorite architect of the Torlonia family Antonio Sarti (1797/1880), important for the documentation of architecture and art history