La pala di San Giobbe di Guido Reni: commissione, cronologia, fortuna

• Autores: Raffaella Morselli
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 129-130, 2016, págs. 3-29
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The San Giobbe altarpiece by Guido Reni, painted for the third chapel on the left in the church of Santa Maria dei Mendicanti in Bologna (and now in Notre-Dame, Paris), has a complex history. This began with the commission, which stretched from 1622 to 1637, followed by an unstable critical history involving discordant local sources, enormous success in the 1700s (especially in France), oblivion in the 1800s, and less than brilliant scholarly research in the 1900s. The article seeks to reconnect the threads of this story, using rediscovered seventeenth-century references, a study of a substantial number of copies of paintings, drawings and printis that used the altarpiece as the ultimate model, and finally offers a stylistic reading of the painting showing that it was the first of a series of four that Reni executed over a period of a little over six months.