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Prospero Mallerini Trompe l'œil after a sculpture by Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525)
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Prospero Mallerini Trompe l'œil after a sculpture by Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525)
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Prospero Mallerini
Bergamo 1761–1836 Rome
Trompe l'œil after a sculpture by Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525)
oil on canvas
unframed: 108.2 x 87.2 cm.; 42⅝ x 34⅜ in.
framed: 117.5 x 96.7 cm.; 46¼ x 38⅛ in.
Art market, Brussels, by 2024 (as Antwerp School, late 17th to early 18th century);
Where acquired by the present owner.
Recorded as an architect as well as a painter, Prospero Mallerini remains an elusive figure. Few biographical details about the artist are known,but a document relating to his earliest extant work,thePortrait of a Capuchin monk, said to be Fra' Viatoreof 1794 in the Museo Francescano, Rome, states that it was commissioned from 'un pittore di Martinengo': a town in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. Despite this, Mallerini seems to have been active in Romefor most of his career.
Mallerini was patronized by the Barberini family; in 1802, he signed and dated aFamily portrait with don Carlo Barberiniand in 1837 asferisteriowas built upon his designs in the Palazzo Barberini at the Quattro Fontane.1TheFamily portrait incorporates still life elements that are depicted with astonishing naturalism, as seems to be characteristic of Mallerini's work.
The present trompe l'œilpainting is closely related to a relief of the Virgin and Child of around 1475 by Andrea della Robbia, that is today in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.2
1 For the portrait, see A. Busiri Vici, 'Un singolare gruppo di casa Barberini del 1802', inL'Urbe, vol. XXXIII, 1970, no. 3, pp. 1–8, figs 1–14.
2 Inv. no. Bargello Robbiane 74; glazed terracotta, 135 x 92 cm.; https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0900383749.
Bergamo 1761–1836 Rome
Trompe l'œil after a sculpture by Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525)
oil on canvas
unframed: 108.2 x 87.2 cm.; 42⅝ x 34⅜ in.
framed: 117.5 x 96.7 cm.; 46¼ x 38⅛ in.
Art market, Brussels, by 2024 (as Antwerp School, late 17th to early 18th century);
Where acquired by the present owner.
Recorded as an architect as well as a painter, Prospero Mallerini remains an elusive figure. Few biographical details about the artist are known,but a document relating to his earliest extant work,thePortrait of a Capuchin monk, said to be Fra' Viatoreof 1794 in the Museo Francescano, Rome, states that it was commissioned from 'un pittore di Martinengo': a town in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. Despite this, Mallerini seems to have been active in Romefor most of his career.
Mallerini was patronized by the Barberini family; in 1802, he signed and dated aFamily portrait with don Carlo Barberiniand in 1837 asferisteriowas built upon his designs in the Palazzo Barberini at the Quattro Fontane.1TheFamily portrait incorporates still life elements that are depicted with astonishing naturalism, as seems to be characteristic of Mallerini's work.
The present trompe l'œilpainting is closely related to a relief of the Virgin and Child of around 1475 by Andrea della Robbia, that is today in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.2
1 For the portrait, see A. Busiri Vici, 'Un singolare gruppo di casa Barberini del 1802', inL'Urbe, vol. XXXIII, 1970, no. 3, pp. 1–8, figs 1–14.
2 Inv. no. Bargello Robbiane 74; glazed terracotta, 135 x 92 cm.; https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0900383749.