Luca amedei caravaggio biography

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This article analyzes the allegorical content of Caravaggio's painting "Narcissus". It discusses how the painting depicts the Greek myth of Narcissus gazing at his reflection in water. The article explores how this theme was commonly used in the Renaissance, both in literature by authors like Ovid, Dante, and Petrarch, and in other artworks. It posits that through this painting, Caravaggio may have been commenting on narcissism or rejecting classical artistic traditions in favor of realistic depiction.

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This article analyzes the allegorical content of Caravaggio's painting "Narcissus". It discusses how the painting depicts the Greek myth of Narcissus gazing at his reflection in water. The article explores how this theme was commonly used in the Renaissance, both in literature by authors like Ovid, D

Portraits of some famous painters of the 17th century, drawn and engraved in copper by the Knight Ottavio Leoni with the lives of the same by various authors

Ottavio Leoni (1578?-1630)

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On the recto of the front guard paper ms: This book was owned by the late Mr. Ignazio Hugford and bought by me Lamberto Cristiano Gori, his disciple, at the sale of his property with many other books specifically related to the art of drawing. 9 Dec. 1782; at page 271 ms.: By Lamberto Cristiano Gori. 22 October 1782.

Ottavio Leoni was a painter, engraver, but above all a draughtsman. The son of the artist Ludovico Leoni, Ottavio was born in Rome and had high-ranking patrons from a very young age for whom he produced portraits and altarpieces such as Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Cardinal Francesco Maria Bourbon Del Monte, who as protector of the Accademia di San Luca was able to facilitate Leoni's early entry into the company, Giovanni Angelo Altemps and Scipione Borghese. He is also responsible for a series of drawings on blue paper of scientists, mathematicians, arti

Chapter 13 Donatello Re-discovered? A Name for the Author of the Berlin Flagellation and the Hildburgh Relief

Abstract

The essay in question investigates the authorship problem of a marble relief of a Flagellation of Christ, attributed to Donatello by Wilhelm von Bode, who had acquired it in Florence from Stefano Bardini. It was, in the past, celebrated as one of the masterworks by the sculptor in the extensive sculpture collection of the Berlin Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. Presumed lost in the fire of the Friedrichshain Bunker in 1945, it was in fact heavily damaged and secretly transferred to the Soviet Union in 1946, where it had entered the collections of the Moscow State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. It has recently resurfaced in a collaboration research project led by the Moscow and Berlin museums since 2015. The authorship of the work in question had posed a problem for the scholars for a long time, as the relief had been deprived of an autograph Donatello status by H.W. Janson’s definitive 1957 monograph on the sculptor, and was given instead to a myst

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