Trials and tribulations: new documentary evidence for Bernardo Strozzi in Genoa

• Autores: Andaleeb Badiee Banta
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1270, 2009, págs. 14-18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • New documentary evidence has come to light for the career of painter Bernardo Strozzi (1581/82–1644) in Genoa, Italy. For three decades, Strozzi worked profitably for prominent ecclesiastical and private patrons in this rich international port, spending the first decade of his artistic career in a Capuchin monastery. At the height of his success, however, his personal life increasingly came into conflict with his professional activities, culminating in his being charged at the archbishop's tribunal in 1625–26 of practicing art in a manner unsuitable for a friar; this event was pivotal for him, being the first of a series of dramas that resulted in his flight in 1633 to Venice. Two newly discovered notarial documents in the Archivio di Stato of Genoa provide further insight into the complex relationship between the artist's professional and personal life in the years after his appearance before the tribunal. The writer examines this evidence in detail.