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Gian Lorenzo Bernini Portrait of Costanza Bonarelli, 1637 – 1638 ca., marble, h 74.5 cm, Florence, Bargello National Museum. By concession from the Ministry of Culture – Accademia Gallery of Florence and the Bargello Museums. Reproduction prohibited Roma – Reconsider the birth of the Baroque through the privileged lens of the personal and intellectual […]
Giulio de’ Grazia, attributed, (documented in Naples from 1598 to 1641), Damn soulcirca 1600-1620, polychrome wax, glass, bone, mica, mirror 17 x 12 cm, Florence, Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace, Treasury of the Grand Dukes Florence – It has a centuries-old history, but in Medici Florence it reached the pinnacle of virtuosity: it is the […]
Matthias Stom, Esau sells the firstborn in Jacob, oil on canvas, 51 x 84 cm, Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo (in deposit from a private collection) © Photographic Civic Museums or Brescia/Photostudio Rapuzzi Brescia – who was Matthias stupid? For many, a dark name, only a note at the foot of the page in the […]
Francesco Borromini, Church of Can Carlo on the four fountains, 1599-1667 LIn the church of San Carlo at the four fountains it was the first work of Francesco Borromini Independently performed after operation under the supervision of Gianlorenzo Bernini. Started in 1638 and completed in 1641, the church is famous for its complex geometric shape […]
A Polish queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in RomeSet -Up | Courtesy Zetema Roma – When, in the night between March 23 and 24, 1699, Queen Maria Casimira Sobieska Rome reached, welcomed by a city in the celebration, the memory of her wife, King Giovanni (Jan) III Sobieski […]
Roma – A symbolic place of the Roman baroque returns to its original aspect, or almost. The one who has just been completed in the Salone Pietro da Cortona By Palazzo Barberini: For the first time after decades, the enormous frescoed environment returns to welcome the preparatory boxes of the cycle of Life of Urban […]
