Gaetano Ferrari – Jupiter Aegiochus

Gaetano Ferrari Marostica 1786 – Venice 1848 Jupiter Aegiochus • 1840 ca. Red Albania marble, cm 46.5 Ă— 31.5 Ă— 8 Archival documentation: Venice, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Concorsi e premi industriali, 1840, b. 102, f. 3, n. 127 Ferrari Gaetano The gemstone portraying Jupiter, bearer of the Aegis (the shield made…

Antonio Bueno – Portrait of Pietro Annigoni

Portrait of the painter Pietro Annigoni • 1943 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm Signed and dated bottom left: A. Bueno 1943 Label on the back: A. Bueno, Galleria d’arte Firenze, Via Cavour 14, 1943 Bibliography: Saverio e Antonio Bueno, exh. cat. (Florence, Galleria d’Arte “Firenze”, 30 gennaio – 10 febbraio 1943). Not published…

Manuel OlivĂ© – The Farnese Hercules

Manuel OlivĂ© (Oliver), model Active in Rome and Barcellona, documented from 1786 to 1802 Francesco Righetti, bronze cast Rome 1749-1819 The Farnese Hercules • 1786 Bronze, h 76.5 cm Signed and dated lower back: “MOlive / 1786” The Farnese Hercules has held an extraordinary fascination for generations of artist, travellers and collectors, and for eighteenth…

Vincenzo Camuccini – The Death of Porzia

Vincenzo Camuccini Rome 1771 – 1844 The Death of Porzia • 1824 ca. Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 64.5 cm The episode portrayed in this sketch by Vincenzo Camuccini is taken from the history of Rome in the Republican era, an inexhaustible reservoir of exemplary acts of civil and moral virtue, to which painters in…

Adolfo De Carolis – Study for male nude

Adolfo De Carolis Montefiore dell’Aso 1874 – Rome 1928 Study for male nude on the left tympanum of Aemilius for Palazzo del PodestĂ  in Bologna • 1911-12 Oil on canvas , 60,5 x 77 cm Selected bibliography for Palazzo del PodestĂ : Pel salone del PodestĂ , Lettera al direttore, in “Il resto del Carlino”, 15 novembre…