Allegorical Figure of Fame ca. 1590 Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Italian The attribution of this celebrated drawing to Giuseppe Cesari, Cavalier d'Arpino, was annotated in pen and ink by an early collector on the lower edge of the sheet, and repeated by the Eighteenth-century French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette with an inscription on the carouche of his signature blue mount. Lawrence Turčić was the first one to point out that this drawing is probably a study for the Allegory of Fame, frescoed by Cesari in 1613-15 on the ceiling of the Palazzina Montalto in the gardens of the Villa La
Allegorical Figure of Fame ca. 1590 Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Italian The attribution of this celebrated drawing to Giuseppe Cesari, Cavalier d'Arpino, was annotated in pen and ink by an early collector on the lower edge of the sheet, and repeated by the Eighteenth-century French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette with an inscription on the carouche of his signature blue mount. Lawrence Turčić was the first one to point out that this drawing is probably a study for the Allegory of Fame, frescoed by Cesari in 1613-15 on the ceiling of the Palazzina Montalto in the gardens of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia (near Viterbo). More recently, Marco Simone Bolzoni (see Bibliography, and Bolzoni 2013, no. 30) proposed that the study in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was though originally drawn earlier, during the 1590's, as an independent, highly finished work, and reused only later by Cesari for the decoration of the Palazzina Montalto.(). Allegorical Figure of Fame 338501
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