: An exhibition of Italian paintings focused on the Fourteenth to
Eighteenth centuries is running throughout December at Trafalgar
Galleries, St James's.
The exhibition features several significant paintings spanning
the centuries, beginning with a holy group by Niccolo Di Pietro
Gerini, circa 1380-1385; a beautiful panel by Vincenzo Catena,
which was at one time in the collection of the seventh Marquis of
Carpio; and an autographed replica, by Garofalo, of a holy family
with a shepherd painted under the influence of Dosso Dossi.
A work to look for is a painting by Giulio Romano depicting the
Emperor Claudius on horseback. This painting once belonged to the
Gonzaga Family of Mantua and later passed into the collection of
Charles I of England. Among the Venetian paintings is a striking
portrait of a man in armour by Jacopo Tintoretto from his mature
period circa 1560-70. The Sixteenth Century part of the
exhibition includes works by Scipione Pulzone, Jacopo and Leandro
Bassano and Carlo Antonio Procaccini, working with Jan Brueghel.
An especially intriguing painting in the exhibition is a large
version of Titian's destroyed masterpiece portraying St Peter
Martyr, attributed by scholars to Annibale Carracci, which may be
the work recorded in a Bolognese collection of the Seventeenth
century.
Among Caravaggesque paintings is an important musical scene by
Bartolomeo Manfredi and a fascinating depiction of a fortune
teller by a newly discovered master now known as the Maestro dei
Giocatori. Works by Guercino, Carlo Dolci and Massimo Stanzione
are represented among Seventeenth Century works with a high
quality Riberesque painting of a rare subject, "Portia," by Luca
Giordano.
The Eighteenth Century is represented with a powerful early work
by Sebastiano Ricci depicting Samson returning to his parents, as
well as works by Marco Ricci, Vanvitelli, Menescardi, Domenico
Becchio, Sebastiano Conca and Giandomenico Tiepolo.
Trafalgar Galleries is at 35 Bury Street, St James's. For
information, 01144 20 7839-6466 or email
trafalgargallery@aol.com.
