New documents for the chronology and patronage of the cappella del Rosario in S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

• Autores: Patrizia Tosini
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 152, Nº 1289, 2010, págs. 517-522
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An article exploring new evidence regarding the chronology and patronage of the Chapel of the Confraternita del Rosario in the church of S. Maria spora Minerva, one of the most important pictorial cycles created in Rome in the age of the Counter-Reformation. Heretofore, most scholars have fixed the date of the chapel's two pictorial cycles between 1573 and 1579—specifically to the years 1576–78 for the work of Marcello Venusti, and 1578–79 for Giovanni De' Vecchi. However, a document discovered during a recent restoration of the chapel has clarified that Venusti's decoration of the vault was completed in July 1579, while further documentary evidence suggests that De' Vecchi's work was produced as late as 1586. This article also proposes a link between the chapel frescoes and a 1583–85 painting by De' Vecchi and Francesco Vanni that is now in the church of S. Lorenzo in Miranda, Rome.