Alessandro Turchi e Fabrizio Valguarnera

• Autores: Davide Dossi
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 90, 2010, págs. 65-70
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The scandal that swept up the Sicilian nobleman Fabrizio Valguarnera of the Barons of Godrano, guilty of stealing a sizeable consignment of diamonds from Spanish and Flemish merchants, involved various Roman Baroque artists he had commissioned paintings from in the period around 1630. Among these was the Veronese painter Alessandro Turchi, from whom two paintings had been ordered, as well as the completion of a third, formerly in his workshop. Two of these canvases, ‘The Presentation of Christ in the Temple’ (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) and ‘Adam and Eve Lamenting the Death of their Son Abel’ (Grenoble, Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture) are described in detail in Turchi’s deposition during the trial before the Roman court, thus enabling them to be identified in the present article.