"Bagatelle" sparse d'Ambrogio Figino nella raccolta di Sebastiano Resta

• Autores: Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinó
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 109-110, 2013, págs. 64-89
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Among the many works owned by the drawings collector Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714; a Milanese native long resident in Rome, where he was an Oratorian at the Chiesa Nuova) was an album of studies by Ambrogio Figino, sold by him to the Florentine Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri in about 1710, and now in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Before parting with it, Resta removed a number of sheets, some of which have now been identified by the author in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence and the British Museum, London. Resta also owned other drawings by Figino, illustrated here. This initial study of Lombard drawings owned by Resta reveals that he kept in touch with the Milanese art world throughout his life, establishing correspondence with painters, collectors, art experts and dealers, from whom he continually requested drawings, and to a lesser extent paintings, which be then sold on the Roman art market.