Saturday, December 17, 2016

Faces and Places from 17th-century Italy

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1647-49
oil on canvas
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
Portrait of a Gentleman
1650s
oil on canvas
private collection

Pier Francesco Mola
Oriental Warrior
1650
oil on canvas
Louvre

Tanzio da Varallo
Portrait of a Gentleman with a Sword
ca. 1615
oil on canvas
private collection

Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,
For every man alone thinks he hath got
To be a phoenix, and that there can be
None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

 John Donne, from The First Anniversary, published 1611

Daniele Crespi
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1625
oil on canvas
private collection

Tanzio da Varallo
St Jerome
1624-26
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Bernardo Strozzi
Arachne
ca. 1628-33
oil on panel
private collection

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Self-portrait
ca. 1623
oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Antonio Franchi
Personification of Music as St Cecilia
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
private collection

Bernardino Mei
Vision of St Jerome
ca. 1657-60
oil on canvas
private collection

At the round Earth's imagined corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes
Shall behold God, and never taste death's woe.

 John Donne, from Sonnet VII, published 1633

Domenico Fetti
Parable of the Sower
ca. 1622
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Salvator Rosa
River landscape with Apollo and the Cumean Sibyl
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Wallace Collection, London

FerraĆ¹ Fenzoni
St Francis receiving the Stigmata, supported by an Angel
ca. 1610-20
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Gregorio de Ferrari
Poetic Fantasy
ca. 1689
oil on canvas
Palazzo Rosso, Genoa