Ventura Salimbeni peintre-graveur e l'incisione tra Siena e Roma

This article reconstructs the engraving activity of the Sienese painter Ventura Salimbeni (1567-1613) took place during his stay in Rome. Until now, the literature on the painter has always favored the production of Sienese painting after the journey to Rome, the beginnings of youth Salimbeni and his artistic experience in the Urbe didn’t find recent relevant contributions. The study of etchings, signed and dated by the artist (1589-1594), has allowed us to understand the artistic relationship between the painter and his master in the practice of etching, both among publishers-printers active in Rome in the last decade of the Sixteenth century. The etchings have been studied not only as an object of art, but as some historical documents, as signed and dated. Re-reading the documents of the process in which Salimbeni in 1591 testifies to Rome, it was possible to put some light on the role of his workshop located in Parione, neighborhood merchants and printers Romans, for the start of his practice of etching.

Il presente articolo ricostruisce l’attività incisoria del pittore senese Ventura Salimbeni (1567-1613) svoltasi durante il suo soggiorno romano, attraverso lo studio degli esemplari in acquaforte firmate e datate dall’artista (1589-1594), consentendo l’emersione di rapporti artistici sia tra il pittore e il suo possibile maestro nell’arte calcografica, sia tra gli editori-stampatori attivi a Roma nell’ultima decade del Cinquecento.