The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan

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S. Albl
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The novelty of Angelo Lo Conte’s book lies in its approach to the study of the Procaccini brothers’ careers which are analysed for the very first time through a socio-economic framework, interconnecting Camillo (1551-1629), Carlo Antonio (1555-1630) and Giulio Cesare’s (1574-1625) individual stories and understanding their success as the combination of family strategy, workshop practice and business organisation. The book investigates the practical reasons that prompted the Procaccini to leave Bologna between the end of 1587 and beginning of 1588 and relocate to Milan as well as the strategies enacted by the family members to settle in the new city. In doing so, the volume moves away from a focus on the individual brothers (especially Giulio Cesare, the most talented and widely collected artist of the three brothers) that appear in previous studies on the Procaccini and encloses Camillo, Carlo Antonio, and Giulio Cesare’s careers in a narrative that emphasises their achievements as painters and entrepreneurs. Such an approach allows for an investigation of the choices made by the Procaccini brothers at different times in their careers, the commissions they received, as well as the structure and the geographic focus they assigned to their family workshop. While art historical studies informed by a socio-economic approach have been devoted to cities such as Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Bologna, this has never been done for Milan. This fact alone reveals the ambitious, bold and innovative approach chosen by the author. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter One “Old and New Approaches to the Procaccini” gives full credit to Carlo Cesare Malvasia who provides in his Felsina Pittrice (1678) the most complete source on the lives of the Procaccini brothers. Malvasia visited Milan in 1667 where he learned about the Procaccini from Ercole the Younger, Carlo Antonio’s son and the only remaining member of this dynasty of painters. Malvasia’s account on the Procaccini, as pointed out by Lo Conte, is an essay on a family story (p. 15). Before focusing on their individual achievements, Malvasia speaks about the connections between the brothers and states that the family members mutually agreed to leave Bologna. Malvasia also includes several excerpts from treatises written by seventeenth-century authors, such as Francesco Scanelli, Raffaello Soprani, Marco Boschini and Giambattista Marino, that document the fame and status the artists had gained during their lifetimes. Lo Conte draws attention to Girolamo Borsieri’s comments about Giulio Cesare’s excellence in sculpture and his stylistic closeness to Parmigianino as well Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 234–236 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143766
普罗卡奇尼与近代早期米兰的绘画事业
Angelo Lo Conte这本书的新颖之处在于它对Procaccini兄弟的职业生涯进行了研究,首次通过社会经济框架对其进行了分析,将Camillo(1551-1629)、Carlo Antonio(1555-1630)和Giulio Cesare(1574-1625)的个人故事联系起来,并将他们的成功理解为家庭策略的结合,研讨会实践和商业组织。这本书调查了促使普罗卡奇尼家族在1587年底至1588年初离开博洛尼亚并迁移到米兰的实际原因,以及家族成员在新城市定居的策略。在这样做的过程中,这本书不再关注之前对Procaccini的研究中出现的兄弟个人(尤其是Giulio Cesare,三兄弟中最有才华、收藏最广的艺术家),而是将Camillo、Carlo Antonio和Giulio Sesare的职业生涯纳入一种叙事中,强调他们作为画家和企业家的成就。这种方法可以调查普罗卡奇尼兄弟在职业生涯的不同时期所做的选择、他们获得的佣金,以及他们分配给家庭研讨会的结构和地理重点。虽然从社会经济角度对罗马、威尼斯、佛罗伦萨、那不勒斯、博洛尼亚等城市进行了艺术史研究,但米兰从未这样做过。这一事实本身就揭示了作者所选择的雄心勃勃、大胆创新的方法。这本书分为六章。第一章“Procaccini的新旧方法”充分归功于Carlo Cesare Malvasia,他在他的Felsina Pittrice(1678)中提供了关于Procaccini兄弟生活的最完整的资料。1667年,马尔瓦西亚访问了米兰,在那里他从小埃尔科尔那里了解到了普罗卡奇尼,小埃尔科尔是卡洛·安东尼奥的儿子,也是这个画家王朝中仅存的一员。正如Lo Conte所指出的,Malvasia对Procaccini的描述是一篇关于家庭故事的文章(第15页)。在关注他们的个人成就之前,Malvasia谈到了兄弟之间的联系,并表示家庭成员相互同意离开博洛尼亚。Malvasia还收录了17世纪作家Francesco Scanelli、Raffaello Soprani、Marco Boschini和Giambattista Marino撰写的几篇论文节选,这些论文记录了艺术家们在一生中获得的声誉和地位。Lo Conte提请注意Girolamo Borsieri对Giulio Cesare在雕塑方面的卓越表现及其与Parmigianino的风格接近的评论,以及《澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志》,2022,第22卷,第2期,234–236https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143766
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