I dipinti di Andrea Pozzo per il padre generale Giovanni Paolo Oliva: un felice ritrovamento

• Autores: Laura Facchin, Andrea Spiriti
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 111, 2013, págs. 50-57
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Andrea Pozzo's shipment of two paintings to the Father General of Jesuit Order Giovanni Paolo Oliva in 1679 provided the inmediate introduction for the painter's move to Rome, and for his key role in the Society's artistic politics. The two hitherto unidentified works (a "Saint Mary Magdalen" and "Saint John Chrysostom in dialogue with Saint Basil of Raphanea") have just been rediscovered in the Vatican storerooms, and are presented here with a dual reading: on the one hand, emphasis on their full integration within Pozzo's oeuvre (with strong echoes of the Milanese tradition), and the other, consideration of their complex iconography, which to some extent sums up the artist's own spiritual journey. The author also reconstructs the events that took the works from an original Jesuit context to their current location.