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Jacques Courtois at Villa Lappeggi
Anabel Thomas
其他書名
Seventeenth Century Military Exploits and Medici Self-referencing in the Visual Arts
出版Nuova immagine, 2018
主題Art / History / Baroque & RococoArt / Techniques / PaintingBiography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN88714537789788871453774
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XLoGtQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The fame of the seventeenth century French artist Jacques Courtois ("Il Borgognone") as a painter of battle scenes rests in large part on the four great paintings of military engagements in the Thirty Years' War and the First War of Castro that Courtois is said to have produced for Prince Mattias dei Medici at Villa Lappeggi just outside Florence some time during the 1650s. Originally constructed for the Medici family in the sixteenth century, Villa Lappeggi was in turn owned by Grand Duke Francesco I, his brother Ferdinando (subsequently Ferdinando I) and several other members of the Medici family before it was handed over to Count Giovanni Antonio Orsini di Pitigliano. It finally reverted in 1640 to Grand Duke Ferdinand's grandson, Ferdinando II, older sibling of Mattias dei Medici. When the Flemish painter Justus Utens (also known as Giusto Utens) set about painting the series of Medicean villas in lunette form (including the scene presented here) between 1599 and 1602, the villa complex at Lappeggi was a comparatively simple affair. But dramatic changes were made when Prince Mattias assumed ownership of the villa in 1644.