Meintest du rosa?
The order to portray a subject who had died decades earlier did not faze Bernini. Working from a painting, the soon-to-be famous baroque artist summoned up the beloved uncle of his friend Matteo Barberini, newly elected Pope Urban VIII.
Roma vista da Roma.
Born in Paris in 1733, Hubert Robert was a landscape draftsman and painter whose early training was sponsored by members of the Choiseul family, the employers of his parents who were retainers in their household. In 1754 he traveled to Rome in the entourage of France’s new ambassador to the papal court, Étienne François, comte de Stainville, the future duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), a political ally of the marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764).
· etching on laid paper · Accession ID 2016.43.6 Artwork Nella venuta in Roma
Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” 1992: 337, cat. 90, fig. 29. 1993
Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” 1992: 38-39, 338-339, cat. 91, fig.
Felice from her father Laudivio Zacchia, cardinal of San Sisto (Archivio di stato di Roma
Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
notes Artwork History Provenance Purchased 1670 by Lorenzio Onofrio Colonna, Roma
The inscription around the elaborate gold clasp holding her cloak gives her name, but 14th-century viewers would have immediately recognized Saint Catherine of Alexandria by the book she holds and the spiked wheel before her. Legends of the fourth-century Egyptian martyr made her one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages.
Venturi (“La quadreria Sterbini,” L’Arte 8 (1905): 422-440; La Galleria Sterbini in Roma
Apparati architettonici per fuochi d’artificio a Roma nel Settecento.
Apparati architettonici per fuochi d’artificio a Roma nel Settecento.
1972, lots 142 and 142, included in a two-volume bound copy of Le Magnificenze di Roma
