Frescoes by Herman van Swanevelt in Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona

• Autores: Susan Russell
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 139, Nº 1128, 1997, págs. 171-177
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In his 'Vita di Armanno' Passeri records that Herman van Swanevelt executed landscape friezes in many noble Roman palaces, going on to say that these were in fresco with tempera additions a secco. The only mural paintings he specifies, however, are the two lunettes in the sacristy of S. Maria sopra Nfinerva, of which one survives (Fig. l 9), painted while the artist was confined in the monastery there for failing to observe a fast. l Until now this lunette has been the sole fresco associated with Swanevelt. The purpose of this article is to propose the attribution to him of a frieze with scenes from the life ofJoseph in the east sving of the Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona, Rome, the authorship of which has not hitherto been satisfactorily resolved despite some scholarly debate during the decade following the Brazilian government's acquisition of the palace in 1960.