From the Counter-Reformation to the Neoclassicism

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Section "From the Counter-Reformation to the Neoclassicism", ground floor

 

22 Sacred jewellery (glass case)

23 The great models: Guido Reni and Giovanni Lanfranco 17 th century

24 Pietro Paolini 17 th century

25 Pietro da Cortona’s followers 17 th century

26 Pompeo Batoni 18 th century

Fully baroque are the works of two major foreigners artists, Giovanni Lanfranco and Guido Reni whom are promoted through the works of Paolo Biancucci, at the time, leading member of the local school of painting. In the following room is well documented the activity of the greatest exponent of the “Caravaggesque” painting in Lucca, Pietro Paolini.In the next room we have paintings of Girolamo Scaglia and Antonio Franchi, who were both born in Lucca. Franchi was a painter of a highest level who later became in Florence the official portraitist of the Medici court. The last hall of the museum houses paintings by Giovanni Domenico Lombardi, artist of elegant tones and probable teacher of Pompeo Batoni to whom we owe the Ecstasy of St. Catherine and the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew. To them the museum has recently added the small but precious painting with The Ecstasy of St. Teresa bought on the antiquities market. Pompeo Batoni, born in Lucca in 1708, was the most celebrated Italian painter of the second half of the eighteenth century, and is the trait d’union between the collections of the Villa Guinigi Museum and the Mansi Palace where, in the new rooms on the second floor, continues the chronological order of exhibition. The portrait of the Mansi Archbishop is the first painting of the new contemporary section that goes from the Neoclassisicsm to the 20th Century local art.

 

Guido Reni
Guido Reni (20)
Cristo crocifisso tra i Santi Caterina d'Alessandria e Giulio

A sinistra in ginocchio, rivolta verso il Crocifisso, è Santa Caterina d'Alessandria con manto viola-lilla e interno verde, poggiata alla ruota conil braccio destro, mentre con la mano regge la palma del martirio. A destra è San Giulio in piedi abbigliato in rosa e azzurro con lo sguardo rivolto verso lo spettatore. Al centro sulla croce è il Cristo con i fianchi cinti di un perizoma giallo, stagliato contro il cielo grigio

Tela/ pittura a olio