This volume presents the findings of an interdisciplinary research project focused on the Portrait of Archduke Alberto VII by Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577–Antwerp, 1640), a work dating to the years of the artist’s Italian sojourn (between the late sixteenth century and the first decade of the seventeenth century), a period that was fundamental to the development of the aesthetic canon that characterised the Flemish painter’s later career. In fact, while this small painting displays characteristics common to the Northern painting tradition, it already contains clear references to Italian figurative culture, with a preference for the great sixteenth-century Venetian masters. The Portrait of Archduke Alberto VII, like so many others by Rubens, achieves physiognomic likeness through the fundamental mediation of interpretation and expressive memory that only an attentive, curious and selective master painter like Rubens would have been able to orchestrate.
Il volume propone lo studio condotto attraverso più ambiti d’indagine sul Ritratto dell’Arciduca Alberto VII di Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Anversa, 1640), opera risalente agli anni della formazione italiana tra la fine del Cinquecento e il primo decennio del secolo successivo, fondamentali per lo sviluppo di un canone estetico che caratterizzerà la futura carriera pittorica dell’artista fiammingo. Infatti, il piccolo dipinto mostra caratteristiche formali proprie della tradizione artistica nordica, ma ha già in sé evidentissimi riferimenti alla cultura figurativa italiana, con una predilezione per i grandi maestri del Cinquecento veneto. Il Ritratto dell’Arciduca Alberto VII, come molti altri di Rubens, raggiunge la verosimiglianza fisionomica attraverso la fondamentale mediazione dell’interpretazione, della memoria espressiva che solo un maestro attento, curioso e selettivo come Rubens avrebbe saputo destreggiare.
Indagini su un ritrattista da giovane. Analisi tecnico-diagnostiche di un dipinto inedito di Rubens/Research on a Young Portraitist. The Technical and Diagnostic Analysis of an Unknow Painting by Rubens / Paolini, Cecilia. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 54-103.
Indagini su un ritrattista da giovane. Analisi tecnico-diagnostiche di un dipinto inedito di Rubens/Research on a Young Portraitist. The Technical and Diagnostic Analysis of an Unknow Painting by Rubens
Cecilia Paolini
2014
Abstract
This volume presents the findings of an interdisciplinary research project focused on the Portrait of Archduke Alberto VII by Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577–Antwerp, 1640), a work dating to the years of the artist’s Italian sojourn (between the late sixteenth century and the first decade of the seventeenth century), a period that was fundamental to the development of the aesthetic canon that characterised the Flemish painter’s later career. In fact, while this small painting displays characteristics common to the Northern painting tradition, it already contains clear references to Italian figurative culture, with a preference for the great sixteenth-century Venetian masters. The Portrait of Archduke Alberto VII, like so many others by Rubens, achieves physiognomic likeness through the fundamental mediation of interpretation and expressive memory that only an attentive, curious and selective master painter like Rubens would have been able to orchestrate.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.