Una 'Santa Agnese' ritrovata di Francesco Rustici

• Autores: Guendalina Serafinelli
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 122, 2015, págs. 45-54
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The author attributes to the Sienese painter Francesco Rustici, called il Rustichino, an unpublished canvas with a 'Saint Agnes', identifying its provenance from the collection of Girolamo Tantucci, Bishop of Grosseto. The circumstances of the work's execution are linked with Rustici's last Roman sojourn, when he was residing with his fellow citizen of Siena Orazio Brunetti in the house of Bishop Tantucci (1625). The study is built around two important pieces of evidence: the print made by Brunetti and bearing a dedication to Caterina Riccardi Niccolini -the wife of the Tuscan ambassador to Rome- and the record of a 'Saint Agnes' by Rustici in the 1638 posthumous inventory of the Tantucci household. The slender oeuvre of the Sienese artist, who died prematurely at the age of thirty-four, is thus enriched.