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Description: | 77.0 x 62.0 CRE PASINELLI, Lorenzo; (Italian; 1629-1700) ATTR DOMENICHINO (Domenico Zampieri); (Italian; 1581-1641) This work is from the founder, Dr Hunter's collection, and it is attributed to Lorenzo Pasinelli, a late seventeenth-century Bolognese painter, who was a pupil of Simone Cantarini, known to have painted numerous half-length figures. It was bought as an important Bolognese work by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri 1581-1641), and was shown as such in Robert Strange's exhibition of a 'Collection of pictures?acquired during a journey of several years? in Italy' which was held in a Great Room in St Martin's Lane in 1769, and coincided with the first exhibition of the Royal Academy. Strange's catalogue entry made a direct claim for its importance, stating that 'a sublimity of expression which cannot fail of engaging our attention?.[and] the taste with which it is painted, do more than verify the saying of Poussin, that he knew no painter more intelligent than this artist since the days of Raphael.' In his first Discourse that year, Reynolds had addressed the formation of a collection for the Academy: 'The principal advantage of an academy is that, besides furnishing able men to direct the student it will be a repository for the great examples of the art. These are the materials on which genius is to work?' This painting must have seemed to be precisely the kind of work that Reynolds proposed as an appropriate model, and it is possible that Hunter was influenced by the President's rhetoric. Sadly, this work has fallen considerably in estimation since its acquisition by Hunter.
Apollonia was a saint who lived in third century Alexandria. Apollonia was tortured by having her teeth smashed with pincers, and when this did not shake her faith in Christ, she was put to death. She remains popular as the patron saint of dentistry. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HUNTER 2007 : SAINT : FIGURE : TEETH : STRANGE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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