Paragoni di Paolo e Orazio Farinati: pitture su pietra dei Farinati

• Autores: Davide Dossi
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 112, 2013, págs. 22-31
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • In the 1580s, Paolo Farinati began to use pietra di paragone (touchstone) as a support for his paintings. Only about ten souch works by the Veronese artist are known today, often consisting of smaller replicas of earlier, larger comopsitions. "The Pietà with Saints John and Mary Magdalen" and the "Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, with the Magdalen", both published here, provide an occasion to discuss some hitherto little-known aspects of these kinds of paintings, such as Farinati's secular patrons who commissioned works on stone, and the question of frames created for such pictures. The first of the two works can be connected to the Veronese patron Niccolò Maffei, while the second has its original frame, which recalls the stucco decorations of the Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza and some of the frescoes in the Palazzo Te in Mantua.