La pulce A young woman sits in a cramped interior, pulling her clothing aside as she examines her body. Her head is lowered, one shoulder exposed, and the composition is organised around the awkward concentration of the act. The small oil on copper in the Uffizi is generally known as The Flea (La pulce), althoughContinue reading “Common Life: Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) and Genre Painting”
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Giovanni Andrea Donducci, detto il Mastelletta (1575–1655): Sacred Stories, Private Pictures and Imagined Landscapes
Giovanni Andrea Donducci, detto il Mastelletta Giovanni Andrea Donducci, called il Mastelletta, was born in Bologna in 1575 and died there in 1655. His career belongs to one of the most crowded and difficult moments in Bolognese painting: the period after the Carracci reform, when the city’s painters were working under the shadow of Ludovico,Continue reading “Giovanni Andrea Donducci, detto il Mastelletta (1575–1655): Sacred Stories, Private Pictures and Imagined Landscapes”
