"Velazquez and Bernini: self-portraits compared" at the Nobile Collegio del Cambio in Perugia.

The Nobile Collegio del Cambio in Perugia will soon be investigating the relationships and mutual influences between two great artists who certainly had the opportunity to associate with each other during one of them’s stay in Italy in the first half of the 17th century: Diego Velázquez and Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

In particular, the exhibition"Velázquez and Bernini: self-portraits on display" aims to analyze mutual influences in the making of self-portraits.

Curated by Francesco Federico Mancini, the exhibition begins with an image from the Roman studio of Valentino Martinelli, a baroque art historian and professor at the University of Perugia, where two of the three versions owned by Martinelli ofVelázquez’s Self-Portrait preserved in the Pinacoteca Capitolina in Rome are noted.
Visitors will be able to contemplate Bernini’s Half-Figure Self-Portrait and Velázquez’s Self-Portrait, both from the Uffizi,Bernini’s Self-Portrait from the Prado Museum (which Martinelli believes is an “unfinished” by Gian Lorenzo) andBernini ’s Self-Portrait from the Musée Fabre in Montpellier (which Martinelli believes is “possibly by Bernini”).

The curator writes: “In my opinion, the Roman encounter and the consequent, extraordinary crossing of experiences of two of the major protagonists of the European seventeenth century produced mutually beneficial benefits. Velázquez, thanks to Bernini, understood what expressive force lay in the half-length cut of the portrait, which he had already experimented with on the side of sculpture, and how much vitality could flow from the Titianesque juxtaposition between the sketched manner of the clothes and the finished manner of the faces. Bernini learned from his Spanish colleague the way to delve into the intimate in the characters, to enter into their psychological complexity.”

The exhibition is on view from June 22 to October 22, 2017.

Source: press release

Image: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Self-Portrait (oil on canvas, 62 x 46 cm; Florence, Uffizi Gallery, Vasari Corridor).

"Velazquez and Bernini: self-portraits compared" at the Nobile Collegio del Cambio in Perugia.

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