Giovanni francesco romanelli biography
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Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Biography
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The Sacrifice of Polyxena
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Title:The Sacrifice of Polyxena
Artist:Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, Viterbo ca. – Viterbo)
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions 3/4 x 88 in. ( x cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund,
Object Number
Lorenzo Chigi Montoro, Viterbo (until d. ; inv., ); Giovanni Chigi Montoro, Palazzo Chigi, Rome (until d. ); his widow, Virginia Patrizi, or his daughter, Porzia Patrizi Naro Montoro, Rome (–at least ; inv., ); [Marcus-Galerie LePeletier, Paris, until ; as "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia"; sold for $ to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, New York, –54; sold to The Met]
Inventory of the collection of Lorenzo Chigi Montoro. June 14–22, , f. v. [Archivio di Stato Vaticano, Archivio Patrizi-Montoro, armadio A, tomo 46 (bis) pos. e ss.; see Pedrocchi and Dorotheum ; Getty no. I, as in the Archivio di Stato, Rome], lists "quattro quadri di nove e otto con cornice intagliata e dorata con istorie diverse del Romanelli, sc. ".
Lione Pascoli. Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni. Vol. 1, Rome, , p. 95, states that Romanelli painted four pictures for Lorenzo Chigi, representing Ulysses, Cleopatra, Venus, and Polyxena.
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Giovanni Francesco ROMANELLI
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Biography
Born in Viterbo, the painter and tapestry designer Giovanni Francesco Romanelli left the city at an early age to train as an artist in Rome. After studying with Domenichino, he entered the studio of Pietro da Cortona, becoming one the Tuscan artist’s most outstanding pupils. Romanelli assisted Cortona on the decoration of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome in , and soon gained the patronage of the Barberini family himself, receiving numerous commissions from Pope Urban VIII Barberini, as well as serving as the superintendent of the Barberini tapestry manufactory, for which he provided many cartoons. The death of Urban VIII in and the decline of Barberini patronage in Rome led Romanelli to seek commissions elsewhere. Through the influence of Cardinals Antonio and Franceso Barberini, who had settled in Paris under the protection of Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Romanelli was summoned to France, where he would earn several important commissions. Among the first of these was a fresco cycle depicting scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, executed in for the Galerie Mazarin in Paris, which, as one modern scholar has noted, ‘represent the first painted cycle by a Roman artist in Paris after the attempts to invite Guido Reni and Cortona