Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotto: aggiunte al catalogo

• Autores: Gianluca Zanelli
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 96, 2011, págs. 3-18
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The identification of some interesting works attributable to Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotto allows a reconsideration of the principal phases of this Genoese painter´s evolution; scholarship has now fully recognized his notable role within the Ligurian milieu between the second half of the seventeenth and the early years of the eighteenth centuries. After emerging from the workshop of his father Michelangelo, Bertolotto revealed an idiom deeply tied to the naturalism of Gioacchino Assereto. The Martyrdom of St James (canvas, signed and dated 1666), originally in the chapel dedicated to the saint in the destroyed church of San Domenico in Genoa, can be dated to this first phase. During the last decades of the seventeenth century, Bertolotto drew ever closer to Valerio Castello and Domenico Piola, abandoning his youthful references to Assereto; indeed the period between the 1690s and the early eighteenth century is marked by numerous works that show a clear revival of the figure types, compositions and colours typical of these two fundamental artists, and embracing the grand Baroque style; Bertolotto continued to work in this vein, with uneven results, until the end of his long career.