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Le vite degli artisti di Gaspare Celio: ‘Compendio delle Vite di Vasari con alcune aggiunte’ (Biblioteca dell’ ‘Archivum Romanicum’. Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, 504)

08/2021 | 1421 | 163

Pages: 762-763

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Cavazzini, Patrizia (Cavazzini, Patrizia)

Subjects

art literature:

Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori

art literature:

Celio (1571–1640), Gaspare / Bellori, Giovanni Pietro / Baglione, Giovanni / Vasari, Giorgio

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Manuscripts

subjects:

Italian art / Renaissance art

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Le vite degli artisti di Gaspare Celio: ‘Compendio delle Vite di Vasari con alcune aggiunte’ (Biblioteca dell’ ‘Archivum Romanicum’. Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, 504) By Riccardo Gandolfi. 392 pp. incl. 32 col. ills. (Olschki, Florence, 2021), €48. ISBN 978–88–222–6702–3. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Gaspare Celio, by Ottavio Leoni. 1614. Pencil and white chalk on blue paper, 23.2 by 16.3 cm. (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).

Article

New documents for Cigoli’s ‘Jacob’s dream’ and Baglione’s ‘St John the Baptist’

09/2012 | 1314 | 154

Pages: 612-615

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Author:

Loskoutoff, Yvan (Loskoutoff, Yvan)

Subjects

artists:

Cigoli / Baglione, Giovanni

dates:

1550-1649 / 1650-1699

patrons:

Peretti di Montalto, Alessandro, Cardinal, 1571-1623

print:

Cigoli

print:

Baglione, Giovanni

subjects:

Italian painting / Provenance / Copies / Biographies / Inventories / Commissions / Patronage / Estate inventories / Documentation

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Jacob’s dream, by Cigoli. 1593. Panel transferred to canvas, 173 by 134 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy).

Attributed works:

2. Jacob’s dream, by Cigoli. 1610–13. Canvas, 150.5 by 130 cm. (Burghley House, Lincolnshire).

Article

Jacopo Zucchi in S. Spirito in Sassia

08/1974 | 857 | 116

Pages: 434-444

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Author:

Pillsbury, Edmund P. (Pillsbury, Edmund P.; Pillsbury, Edmund)

Subjects

artists:

Zucchi, Jacopo

buildings:

Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy

dates:

1550-1599

places:

Italy / Rome

sources:

Danti, Ignazio

sources:

Baglione, Giovanni

subjects:

Italian painting / Frescoes

subjects:

Churches / Interiors

subjects:

Documents

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Detail of Fig. 12: Two Apostles. Photo Rigamonti.

Attributed works:

10. Christ Appearing to Sts Helen, Jerome, Peter and Paul, by Jacopo Zucchi. c.1585-86. Canvas, 297 by 131 cm. (Sacristy, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Vasari.

Attributed works:

11. Madonna and Child, St James Major and a Donor, by Francesco Zucchi. Canvas. (S. Giacomo degli Incurabili, Rome.) Photo Rigamonti.

Attributed works:

12. Pentecost, by Jacopo Zucchi. 1587-88. Canvas, 395 by 222 cm. (Tolfa Chapel, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome). Photo Rigamonti.

Attributed works:

13. Detail of Fig.10: St Helen. Photo Vasari.

Attributed works:

14. Portrait of a Young Lady, by Jacopo Zucchi. Canvas, 57.7 by 48.2 cm. (Formerly Collection Poggi, Rome.) Photo Cooper.

Attributed works:

15. St John the Baptist, by Jacopo Zucchi. 1587-88. Canvas. (Tolfa Chapel, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

16. Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple, by Jacopo Zucchi. Panel, 43.3 by 30.4 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.)

Attributed works:

17. Sts Peter and Paul, by Jacopo Zucchi. Canvas c.280 by 133 cm. (Duomo, Sutri.) Photo Rigamonti.

Attributed works:

18. Chapel of Vittoria Tolfa, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome, by Jacopo Zucchi with Assistance. Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

19. Design for a Chapel with an Altar-Piece with the Adoration of the Magi, by Jacopo Zucchi. Pen and Brown Ink, Light and Dark Brown Washes, over Black Chalk, 36 by 27.7 cm. (Christ Church, Oxford.)

Attributed works:

2. View of Nave and Tribune, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome. Photo GFN E-30227.

Attributed works:

3. View of Upper Left Nave, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome. Photo Rigamonti.

Attributed works:

4. The Trinity with Saints and Various Biblical Figures, Angels Playing Music and Distributing Flowers, and St Peter and Paul Baptizing with the Holy Spirit, by Jacopo Zucchi. 1582-83. Fresco. (Apse and Vault of Tribune, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

5. Descent of the Holy Spirit (Left). 1582-83. Fresco. (Tribune, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

6. Descent of the Holy Spirit (Centre). 1582-83. Fresco. (Tribune, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

7. Descent of the Holy Spirit (Right). 1582-83. Fresco. (Tribune, S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

8. Right Wall of Tribune, by Jacopo Zucchi with Assistance. Fresco. (S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome.) Photo Biblioteca Hertziana.

Attributed works:

9. Crucifixion with Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist, by Jacopo Zucchi. 1584. Canvas, c.260 by 137 cm. (Sacristy, Oratorio di S. Giovanni Decollato, Rome.) Photo Rigamonti.

Article

Innocenzo Tacconi 1603

11/1971 | 824 | 113

Pages: 661-667+669

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Author:

Schleier, Erich (Schleier, Erich; Schleier, Eric)

Subjects

artists:

Tacconi, Innocenzo

artists:

Panico, Antonio Maria

artists:

Carracci, Annibale

artists:

Domenichino

artists:

Lanfranco, Giovanni

artists:

Badalocchio, Sisto

artists:

Albani, Francesco

buildings:

Sant'Alessandro Maggiore, Lucca, Italy

dates:

1590-1609

museums and institutions:

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain

places:

Italy / Bologna

places:

Lucca

sources:

Malvasia, Carlo Cesare

sources:

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro

sources:

Baglione, Giovanni

subjects:

Mary, Virgin

subjects:

Biographies / Sources

subjects:

Italian painting / Attributions

Illustrations

Attributed works:

29. Assumption of the Virgin, Here Attributed to Innocenzo Tacconi. 1603. Canvas, 232.5 by 161 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.)

Attributed works:

30. Assumption of the Virgin, by Innocenzo Tacconi (?Copy). 1603. Canvas, 236 by 150 cm. (S. Alessandro Maggiore, Lucca.)

Attributed works:

31. Detail from the Tacconi Assumption Illustrated in Fig.29.

Attributed works:

32. Ceiling Frescoes, by Innocenzo Tacconi. (Cerasi Chapel, S. Maria del Popolo, Rome.)

Attributed works:

33. Virgin in Glory with a View of Bologna, by Annibale Carracci. Pen and Wash. (Albertina, Vienna No.2135.)

Attributed works:

34. Coronation of the Virgin, by Innocenzo Tacconi. (Cappella Bambaci, S. Caterina dei Funari, Rome.)

Attributed works:

35. Virgin in Glory with Saints in Adoration, by Innocenzo Tacconi. (Cathedral, Spoleto.)

Attributed works:

36. Assumption of the Virgin, by Innocenzo Tacconi? (Ex-Holford Collection, London.)

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Orazio Borgianni in Italy and in Spain

04/1964 | 733 | 106

Pages: 146-159

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Author:

Wethey, Harold E. (Wethey, Harold E.; Wethey, H. E.; Wethey, Dr.)

Subjects

artists:

Borgianni, Orazio

dates:

1550-1649

places:

Italy / Spain / Rome

places:

Valladolid

sources:

Baglione, Giovanni

subjects:

Italian painting / Italian painting / Biographies / Sources / Documents

subjects:

Portraits / Visual sources

subjects:

Attributions

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Death of St John the Evangelist, by Orazio Borgianni. Signed. Canvas, 146.5 by 118 cm. (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.)

Attributed works:

10. Circumcision, by Orazio Borgianni. 1604-5. Canvas, 132.5 by 128 cm. (Church of the Convento de Portacoeli, Valladolid.)

Attributed works:

11. Presentation of the Virgin, by Orazio Borgianni. 1604-5. Canvas, 138 by 122 cm. (Church of the Convento de Portacoeli, Valladolid.)

Attributed works:

12. St Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Orazio Borgianni. 1604-5. Canvas, 314 by 198 cm. (Church of the Convento de Portacoeli, Valladolid.)

Attributed works:

13. St Christopher, by Orazio Borgianni. Panel Transferred to Canvas, 102 by 77 cm. (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.)

Attributed works:

14. Lamentation, by Orazio Borgianni. Canvas, 71 by 86 cm. (Museum, Palazzo Venezia, Rome.)

Attributed works:

15. Apparition of the Virgin to St Francis, by Orazio Borgianni. Dated 1608. Canvas, 380 by 250 cm. (Cappella del Cimitero, Sezze Romano.)

Attributed works:

16. Christ Carrying the Cross, by Orazio Borgianni. Canvas, 102 by 102 cm. (Sacristy, Sacro Cuore a Castro Pretorio, Rome.)

Attributed works:

17. Christ Among the Doctors, by Orazio Borgianni. Canvas, 76 by 104 cm. (Collection Julius Weitzner, London.)

Attributed works:

18. Lamentation, by Orazio Borgianni. Fresco, 57 by 67.5 cm. (Sacristy, San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome.)

Attributed works:

2. Assumption, by Orazio Borgianni. Canvas, 213 by 155 cm. (Sacristy, Sacro Cuore a Castro Pretorio, Rome.)

Attributed works:

3. Portrait of an Artist, by an Unknown Painter. Canvas, 95 by 71 cm. (Museo del Prado, Madrid.)

Attributed works:

4. St Christopher, by Orazio Borgianni. Signed. Canvas, 162 by 118 cm. (Collection Florencio Milicua, Barcelona.)

Attributed works:

5. Christ Crucified, by Orazio Borgianni. Signed. Canvas, 241 by 167 cm. (Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Cádiz.)

Attributed works:

6. Tommaso Laureli, by Orazio Borgianni. Dated 1603. Canvas, 66 by 50 cm. (Accademia di San Luca, Rome.)

Attributed works:

8. Assumption, by Orazio Borgianni. 1604-5. Canvas, 350.7 by 213.4 cm. (Church of the Convento de Portacoeli, Valladolid.)

Attributed works:

9. Visitation, by Orazio Borgianni. 1604-5. Canvas, 67.3 by 94 cm. (Church of the Convento de Portacoeli, Valladolid.)

Western art unattributed:

7. Orazio Borgianni, by an Unknown Painter. Dated 1617. Canvas, 66 by 50 cm. (Accademia di San Luca, Rome.)

Short Notice

Charles I and Baglione

08/1962 | 713 | 104

Pages: 344-347

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Author:

Levey, Michael (Levey, Michael; Levey, Mr.)

Subjects

artists:

Baglione, Giovanni

dates:

1600-1649

museums and institutions:

Royal Collection, (Great Britain)

patrons:

Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649

places:

England / Italy / London

subjects:

Italian painting / Patronage

subjects:

Allegories

Illustrations

Attributed works:

26. Allegory of Charity and Justice Reconciled, by Giovanni Baglione. Signed and Dated 1622. Canvas, 264 by 252 cm. (Hampton Court Palace.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H.M. The Queen.

Attributed works:

29. Madonna and Child with Angels, by Giovanni Baglione. Canvas, 173 by 132 cm. (Hampton Court Palace.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H.M. The Queen.

Attributed works:

30. St John the Baptist, by Giovanni Baglione. Canvas, 187 by 122 cm. (Hampton Court Palace.) Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H.M. The Queen.

Letter

The 'Spinario'

04/1960 | 685 | 102

Pages: 167+169

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Author:

Pouncey, Philip (Pouncey, Philip; Pouncey, P. M. R.)

Subjects

artists:

Baglione, Giovanni

artists:

Scultori, Diana

artists:

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

dates:

1590-1609

places:

Italy / Rome

subjects:

Italian painting / Visual sources / Prints / Spinario

Illustrations

Attributed works:

30. The Spinario, by Diana Scultori. Signed and Dated 1581. Engraving, 30.8 by 20.9 cm. (British Museum.)

Article

Cartonetti by Michelangelo

11/1959 | 680 | 101

Pages: 368+370-379+381

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Author:

Wilde, Johannes (Wilde, Johannes)

Subjects

artists:

Michelangelo

artists:

Venusti, Marcello

collectors and dealers:

Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574

dates:

1550-1599

places:

Italy / Florence

sources:

Baglione, Giovanni

subjects:

Italian painting / Drawings / Collections, Private / Royalty

subjects:

Cavalieri, Tommaso de'

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Annunciation, by Michelangelo. Black Chalk, 38.3 by 29.6 cm. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.)

Attributed works:

10. Agony in the Garden, by Marcello Venusti. (Doria Gallery, Rome.)

Attributed works:

11. Annunciation, by Michelangelo. Black Chalk, 28.3 by 19.6 cm. (British Museum.)

Attributed works:

12. Annunciation, by Marcello Venusti. Panel, 45 by 30 cm. (Palazzo Barberini, Rome.)

Attributed works:

13. Annunciation, by Michelangelo. Detail of Fig.7. [Black Chalk, 40.7 by 54.6 cm. (Uffizi, Florence.)]

Attributed works:

14. Study for the Annunciation, by Michelangelo. Pen and Ink. (Vatican Library.)

Attributed works:

15. Design for a Monument to Henry II, by Michelangelo. Black Chalk, 12.7 by 11.2 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.)

Attributed works:

16. Study for the Purification of the Temple, by Michelangelo. Black Chalk, 8.4 by 16.7 cm. (British Museum.)

Attributed works:

2. Noli me tangere, by Marcello Venusti. (S. Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome.)

Attributed works:

3. Noli me tangere, by a Follower of Raphael. (Prado, Madrid.) [Ascribed tentatively to Raffaellino del Colle]

Attributed works:

4. St Bernard, by Marcello Venusti. (Vatican Gallery.)

Attributed works:

5. St Jerome, after Marcello Venusti. Engraving; Detail.

Attributed works:

6. St Francis, after Sebastiano del Piombo. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of H.M. the Queen. (Royal Library, Windsor Castle.)

Attributed works:

7. Annunciation, by Michelangelo. Black Chalk, 40.7 by 54.6 cm. (Uffizi, Florence.)

Attributed works:

8. Annunciation, by Marcello Venusti; Detail. (S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.)

Attributed works:

9. Agony in the Garden, by Michelangelo. Black Chalk, 35.7 by 60.4 cm. (Uffizi, Florence.)

Article

Egregius in Urbe Pictor: Caravaggio Revised

07/1951 | 580 | 93

Pages: 222-235

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Author:

Mahon, Denis (Mahon, Denis)

Subjects

artists:

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

artists:

Carracci, Annibale

buildings:

Cappella Contarelli, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy

buildings:

Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy

dates:

1590-1609

museums and institutions:

Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

patrons:

Crescenzi family

patrons:

Crescenzi, Melchiorre

patrons:

Cerasi, Tiberio

places:

Italy / Rome

sources:

Baglione, Giovanni

sources:

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro

subjects:

Composition (artistic arrangement) / Formal analysis

subjects:

Exhibitions

subjects:

Visual sources / Influence

subjects:

Matthew, Saint

subjects:

Patronage

subjects:

Marino, Giambattista, 1569-1625

subjects:

Italian painting / Documents / Dating

Illustrations

Attributed works:

17. Notary's Copy of Contract of September 24, 1600, between Caravaggio and Monsignor Cerasi, Relating to the Paintings in Santa Maria del Popolo. (Archivio di Stato, Rome.)

Attributed works:

18. Portrait of Caravaggio, by Ottavio Leoni (Detail). Black Chalk Heightened with White, and Some Coloured Chalks, on Blue-Grey Paper. Whole Sheet: 236 by 165 mm. (Biblioteca Nazionale Marucelliana, Florence.)

Attributed works:

19. Portrait of Caravaggio, by Himself; Detail from the Martyrdom of St Matthew. (San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

20. The Crowning of Thorns, by Peter Paul Rubens. Panel, 224 by 180 cm. (Hôpital du Petit-Paris, Grasse.)

Article

The Chronology of the Contarelli Chapel

06/1951 | 579 | 93

Pages: 186+188-199+201

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Author:

Hess, Jacob (Hess, Jacob)

Subjects

artists:

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da

artists:

Ferrucci, Pompeo di Giovanni Battista

artists:

Muziano, Girolamo

artists:

Carracci, Annibale

artists:

Cesari, Giuseppe, called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino

buildings:

San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy

buildings:

Cappella Contarelli, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy

dates:

1550-1599

patrons:

Contarelli, Matteo

patrons:

Contarelli family

patrons:

Crescenzi, Virgilio

places:

Italy / Rome

sources:

Zuccaro, Federico

sources:

Mancini, Giulio, 1558-1630

sources:

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro

sources:

Baglione, Giovanni

subjects:

Patronage

subjects:

Sources / Documents

subjects:

Christian iconography / Matthew, Saint / Visual sources

subjects:

Chapels / Interiors

subjects:

Italian painting / Italian sculpture / Italian architecture

Illustrations

Attributed works:

12. St Matthew and the Angel, by Jacob Cornelisz Cobaert and Pompeo Ferrucci. Marble. (SS. Trinità de'Pellegrini, Rome.)

Attributed works:

13. Labour, by Giuseppe d'Arpino. Fresco. (Sala Vecchia degli Svizzeri, Vatican.)

Attributed works:

14. Two Prophets, by Giuseppe d'Arpino. Fresco. (Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi de'Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

15. Two Prophets, by Giuseppe d'Arpino. Fresco. (Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi de'Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

16. St Matthew Healing a Sick Person, by Giuseppe d'Arpino. Fresco. (Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi de'Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

17. Healing of St Peter's Mother-in-Law, by Nicolò Circiniani. Fresco. (Logge of Gregory XIII, Vatican.)

Attributed works:

18. St Matthew and the Angel, by Caravaggio. Canvas 223 by 183 cm. (Formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin.)

Attributed works:

19. St Matthew and the Angel, by Caravaggio. Canvas, 295 by 195 cm. (Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi de'Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

20. Detail from Fig. 21: Head of St Matthew.

Attributed works:

21. Calling of St Matthew, by Caravaggio. Canvas, 328 by 348 cm. (Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi de'Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

22. Martyrdom of St Matthew, by Caravaggio. Canvas, 328 by 348 cm. (Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi de'Francesi, Rome.)

Attributed works:

23. Detail from Fig. 21, after Restoration: Head and Back of Young Man.

Attributed works:

24. Detail from Fig. 21, before Restoration in July 1940: Head and Back of Young Man.

Attributed works:

25. Pan and Diana, by Annibale Carracci. Fresco. (Palazzo Farnese, Rome.)

Attributed works:

26. Mercury and Paris, by Annibale Carracci. Fresco. (Palazzo Farnese, Rome.)

Attributed works:

27. Detail from Fig. 22: Nude in Right-hand Corner.

Attributed works:

28. Satyr, in Bottom Left-Hand Corner of Triumph of Bacchus, by Annibale Carracci. Fresco. (Palazzo Farnese, Rome.)

Attributed works:

29. Angel. Detail from Flight into Egypt, by Caravaggio. Canvas. (Doria Gallery, Rome.)

Attributed works:

30. Luxury. Detail from Hercules at the Crossroads, by Annibale Carracci. Canvas. (Museo Nazionale, Naples.)

Attributed works:

31. Detail from Fig. 22: Nude in Left-Hand Corner.

Attributed works:

32. Detail from Polyphemus, by Annibale Carracci. Fresco. (Palazzo Farnese, Rome.)

Attributed works:

A. Elcana, Hanna and Phenenna, by Hans Holbein. Woodcut.

Attributed works:

B. St Matthew and the Angel, by Hans Holbein. Woodcut.

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