Agostino Tassi, G.F. Grimaldi e il Cardinale Maurizio di Savoia a Montegiordano

• Autores: Marco Chiarini
• Localización: Commentari d'arte: rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, Vol. 19, Nº. 54-55, 2013, págs. 85-90
• Idioma: italiano
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  • In a document published in Schede Vesme 1968, the Roman artist Agostino Tassi received a payment from Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy for a frieze painted in the Salone of his palace of Montegiordano in Rome (now known as Palazzo Taverna). After learning, in 1980, on the frieze's survival in poor condition, beneath the large paintings by Sebastiano Ricci which had been added later, I then heard that it had been detached, restored and removed to some other place. However, it was only many years later that I was able, thanks to the generous help of Don Camillo Aldobrandini, the present owner, to study the paintings. Despite the documented payment to Tassi the frieze is clearly by the hand of the Bolognese painter Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, who assisted Tassi in Palazzo Pamphily at Piazza Navona in 1635. It is likely that Tassi supplied the drawings for the first two section of the frieze, considering their more 'archaic' character compared with the two later scenes which are typical examples of the Bolognese artist's work.