L'activité de Bastiano Torrigiani sous le pontificat de Grégoire XIII

• Autores: Emmanuel Lamouche
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 173, 2011, págs. 51-58
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Bastiano Torrigiani (Bologna, around 1542 - Rome, 1596) was a bronze founder of Bolognese origin, active in Rome between 1573 and 1596. He is above all known for the large bronze casts done for Sixtus V (1585-1590) and for Clement VIII (1592-1605), which made him famous, and which his biographer Giovanni Baglione enumerated in his Vite in 1642. On the other hand less is known about his career in the preceding years, especially under the pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585). The present article concentrates on this part of Torrigiani's life elucidated by previously unpublished documents discovered in the archives in Rome. In them appears the pathway of an artist who receives relatively numerous commissions from the pope and his entourage, in particular for the pontifical chapel in Saint Peter's Basilica, the Gregorian Chapel. At this time Torrigiani was in possession of the workshop collection of Guglielmo Della Porta, whose assistant he had been. This study seeks to link the unpublished documents to the filiations between the Bolognese artist and his former master, in order to contribute to the history of sculpture and the decorative arts around the workshop of a founder in Rome in the last quarter of the 16th century.