Carlo Antonio and the bottega Procaccini
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Angelo Lo Conte
Abstract
This study investigates the career of Carlo Antonio Procaccini, a member of one of the most prominent artistic families of the early Italian Seicento. Together with his brothers Camillo and Giulio Cesare, he was instrumental in establishing a famous workshop in Milan which played a fundamental role in the artistic renovation of the Borromean era. Celebrated by seventeenthcentury sources, Carlo Antonio’s career has been largely underestimated. The essay reaffirms his legacy as the most important North Italian landscape painter of the first three decades of the seventeenth century, highlighting how his art thrived in the uniqueness of the Milanese artistic environment, which was characterized by post-Tridentine reform and prosperity, Spanish patrons, and Northern European connections as well as artistic eclecticism.
Photo credits: 1, 8 No copyright restrictions. — 2, 7, 9, 10 Photographs taken by the author. — 3 Courtesy of Don Roberto Salsa. — 4 Museo del Beni Culturali Cappuccini, Milan. — 5 Pinacoteca Ala Ponzone, Cremona. — 6 David H. Koetser, Zurich. — 11 Didier Aaron, New York. — 12 Accademia Carrara, Bergamo. — 13 Cosentino Puglisi Collection, Catania. — 14 Mina Gregori (ed.), Pittura a Milano dal Seicento al Neoclassicismo, Milan 1999, 97.
This contribution is the re-elaboration of a conference paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America held in New Orleans in March 2018. I would like to thank Jaynie Anderson and Robert Gaston for their invaluable advice and support. I am grateful to Anne Dunlop, Peter Lukehart and Luke Morgan for their insightful comments.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Aufsätze
- Carlo Antonio and the bottega Procaccini
- Translating images from India to Amsterdam in the eighteenth century
- Leitbild Lebensreform. Harry Graf Kessler und Karl Ernst Osthaus als Museumsgründer
- Fritz Eisels Mosaik Der Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos am Rechenzentrum in Potsdam. Eine kunsthistorische Kontextualisierung von Ort, Werk und Rezeption
- Buchbesprechungen
- Ausgekämmt
- Joris Hoefnagel and the Kunstkammer
