A major Baroque conference to investigate persistence and reworking of Caravaggism in the seventeenth century

On Wednesday, June 12 and Thursday, June 13, 2019, a major international study conference entitled Baroque in chiaroscuro will be held at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Persistences and Reworks of Caravaggism in Seventeenth-Century Art. Rome, Naples, Venice 1630-1670, curated by Alessandro Cosma and Yuri Primarosa. The two days are part of the initiatives related to the exhibition The Triumph of the Senses. New Light on Mattia and Gregorio Preti, underway in Rome, Palazzo Barberini until Sunday, June 16, 2019(you can read Finestre sull’Arte’sreview at this link ).

The conference is of considerable importance because it has an ambitious goal, that of unraveling a controversial critical knot in seventeenth-century painting: the times and ways in which the different declinations of Caravaggio’s naturalism followed or overlapped with the varied classicist and baroque instances in the central decades of the century. Young researchers and internationally renowned scholars will examine three different cultural and geographical contexts: Rome introduced by Yuri Primarosa, Naples by Alessandro Cosma and Venice by Michele Di Monte. While Andrea Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona amazed the world with the classical and baroque vaults of the Palazzo Barberini, numerous other artists, including José de Ribera, the Spadarino, Matthias Stomer and the young Luca Giordano, continued to paint in the Caravaggio groove, testifying to a taste that was still alive and fruitful. At the end of the day on Thursday, May 13, Alessandro Cosma and Yuri Primarosa will guide participants on a tour of the Palazzo Barberini exhibition The Triumph of the Senses. New Light on Mattia and Gregorio Preti. Below is the full program of the conference.

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - Morning
9:30 a.m.: Greetings Flaminia Gennari Santori, director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art

Introduction Alessandro Cosma, Yuri Primarosa, National Galleries of Ancient Art.

Section on Rome - Yuri Primarosa presides

10 a.m.: Francesco Gatta, art historian, “Dipingere di maniera, e con l’esempio avanti del naturale”: new proposals for Baldassarre Aloisi known as the “Galanino” and some considerations on the developments of naturalism between Rome and Naples

10:30 a.m.: Francesca Curti, art historian, Bartolomeo Mendozzi aka Master of the Incredulity of St. Thomas: a pupil of Manfredi in the Rome of the 1930s-40s

11:00 a.m.: Gianni Papi, art historian, Riberean survivals in Rome: additions to Pasquale Chiesa’s catalog

11:30 a.m., coffee break

12.15 pm: Francesco Petrucci, Ariccia, Palazzo Chigi, Roman Baroque Museum, Il Cavalier Beinaschi and the Roman ’tenebristi’. General considerations and some news

Francesco Grisolia, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” “With a few signs mostly of charcoal on dark papers, and with a few lights of white lapis he took from the natural.” Giovan Battista Beinaschi and drawing in chiaroscuro

1 p.m.: Luca Calenne, art historian, A Caravaggesque stronghold in Baroque Rome: the workshop of Romualdo and Leonardo de Sanctis, from the “Sapienza” to the Campidoglio

1:30 pm: lunch break

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - Afternoon

Section on Naples - Chaired by Alessandro Cosma

3 p.m.: Viviana Farina, Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, Luca Giordano as a young man: in the footsteps of Ribera

3:30 p.m.: Yuri Primarosa, National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome, Luca Giordano between Naples and Venice: a rediscovered masterpiece

4 p.m.: Francesco Lofano, University of Bari “Aldo Moro” Studies, The difficulties of Carlo Rosa between viceroys and prelates: the case of the ceiling of San Nicola

4:30 p.m.: coffee break

5 p.m.: Itay Sapir, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)/ Freie Universität, Berlin), Stylistic Survival as Prophesy: Ribera’s persistent Caravaggism at the Certosa di San Martino

5:30 p.m.: Enrico De Nicola, art historian, Traces of Mattia Preti in known and unpublished drawings by Francesco Solimena and a new sheet by Luca Giordano

Thursday, June 13, 2019 - Morning

Section on Venice - Michele Di Monte chairs

10:15 a.m.: Michele Nicolaci, Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia (anti)caravaggesca. Itinerary in chiaroscuro

10:45 a.m.: Debora Tosato, Soprintendenza ABAP for the metropolitan area of Venice and the provinces of Belluno, Padua and Treviso, The “tenebrosi” in Venetian painting in the second half of the 17th century: critical fortune and the case of Antonio Zanchi

11.15 am: Coffee break

12 noon: Loredana Pavanello, Venice, Giorgio Cini Foundation, "Con ombreggiamenti assai caricati. The ’tenebrosa’ painting of Antonio Zanchi and the ramifications of Caravaggism at the Venetian School of San Fantin

12:30 p.m.: Anna Orlando, art historian, Last Flashes of Genoese Caravaggism on the Routes Rome, Naples and Venice

1 p.m.: Discussion

1:30 pm: lunch break
Thursday, June 13, 2019 - Afternoon
4 pm: Alessandro Cosma, Yuri Primarosa, guided tour of the Palazzo Barberini exhibition The Triumph of the Senses. New light on Mattia and Gregorio Preti.

Pictured: Gregorio and Mattia Preti, Concert with Scene of Good Fortune (1630-1635; oil on canvas, 195 x 285 cm; Turin, Pinacoteca dell’Accademia Albertina)

A major Baroque conference to investigate persistence and reworking of Caravaggism in the seventeenth century

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