Some Observations on “Michele Grechi Lucchese” Painter and Engraver Ilaria Taddeo The article analyzes two decorations by the Lucchese artist Michele Grechi in mid-sixteenth-century Rome. The publication of the artist’s previously inedited testament provides the opportunity to deeper evaluate an oft-stated but unconfirmed attribution to Michele Grechi of a painted frieze in the first room…

Un angolo di Toscana a Roma: la Cappella di Carlo Lambardi «Nobilis Aretinus» in Santa Maria in Via Gianpasquale Greco The aristocratic chapel which architect Carlo Lambardi erected for himself in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Via, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, has so far been neglected by scholars. This is also due…

Nicolas Guillaume de la Fleur (1595/1600-1663): un pittore lorenese tra Roma la Francia in età barocca Chiara Minardi In this essay, the author reconstructs the history of the two series of floral etchings engraved by Nicolas Guillaume de La Fleur (1595/1600-1663), painter and draughtsman from Lorraine, residing in Rome during the 1630s, where he was…

Ingres et le mythe d’Œdipe Laurent Grison The French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) depicted one of the most powerful Greek myths in a painting entitled Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx. Painted in 1808, and then reworked by the artist, it was exhibited at the Salon in 1827. Ingres explores the deep symbolic meaning…