Scipione Pulzone
| Scipione Pulzone | |
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 Mater Divinae Providentiae |
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| Birth name | Scipione Pulzone |
| Born | c. 1550 Gaeta |
| Died | February 1, 1598 Rome |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Field | painting |
| Movement | Mannerism |
| Influenced by | Jacopino del Conte |
Scipione Pulzone (Gaeta, c. 1542 or 1543 – February 1, 1598), also known as Il Gaetano, was an Italian late Renaissance Mannerist or, more properly, "counter-Maniera" painter active in Rome. He was a disciple of Jacopino del Conte.
Best known for his portraits, Pulzone painted Gregory XIII, Cardinal de' Medici and the Grand Duke Ferdinand de Medici, Eleonora de' Medici, and Maria de' Medici. He also painted an Assumption with the Apostles for San Silvestro al Quirinale ; a Pietà for the Gesu; and a Crucifixion for Santa Maria in Vallicella.
Pulzone's Mater Divinae Providentiae, painted around 1580, inspired the Roman Catholic cult of devotion to Our Lady of Providence.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Gaeta around 1550 and initially trained in the workshop of Jacopino del Conte, Pulzone was one of the most original pictorial interpreters of the age of the Counter Reformation and one of the most esteemed artists active in Rome in the second half of the 16th century. Many of his works, and especially the religious paintings, betray the marked influence of Gerolamo Siciolante from Sermoneta. He excelled above all in portraiture, displaying particularly high artistic quality in the rendering of details. He worked at the Neapolitan and Florentine courts as well as in Rome, where he also painted the portraits of the popes of his day, namely Pius V and Gregory XIII. His major religious works included the Our Lady of the Assumption in the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale and the Christ on the Cross with Saints in Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome. He died at an early age in 1598.
[edit] References
- Domenico Sedini, Scipione Pulzone, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for biography)
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art. ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. 660–664.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 328. http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1.
[edit] Other projects
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