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Lot 29: Castelli, Transfiguration of Christ

Est: €1,500 EUR - €2,000 EURPassed
BibliopathosVerona, ItalyJuly 09, 2014

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Description

ANNIBALE CASTELLI

(Bologna, 1573-dopo il 1623)

Transfiguration of Christ

Black ink pen watercolored and white lead on brown prepared paper, 13x9,2 inches (331 x 233 mm)

Inscription Annibale Castelli in brown ink on the passepartout.

Definitely well preserved, this drawing represents, with unusual closeness to the Evangelic event, the episode in which Jesus Christ revealed his Holy Nature to his disciples Peter, James and John (Matthew, 17, 1-13; Mark, 9, 2-13; Luke, 9, 28-36). After having led them to the top of Mount Tabor, the Savior face became shining as the sun, and his clothes got a dazzling glimmer; at his side appeared Moses and Elijah, that started to talk with him, while a shining cloud surrounded them and a voice from the sky said "this is my favorite son". The rediscovery of Annibale Castelli is due to some recent studies (Roio 1994, pp 99-1106; id., 1996; id., 1997, pp. 67-70, Cat. nn. 35-38).

First pupil of Carracci's and then, because of the quarrels started in their school, faithful pupil of the rival "Accademia" created by the talented Pietro Faccini, Annibale was then a talented painter, with great technical and stylistic capabilities, author of masterpieces of refined late-manneristic elegance, as well as trusted collaborator of the master Faccini, whose unfinished work he completed.Notwithstanding Castelli had not much support from the official art criticism, he should have had a good glamour among the artist of his age, being part of the Painter Council in Bologna, close to important masters as Ludovico Carracci and Giacomo Cavedone.

Only in the last period the Castelli's catalogue has been enriched with new paintings and some drawings: the last are quite easily recognizable because, in the graphic style, they are very close to his peculiar modus pingendi, luminous and vivid.

This stylistic peculiarity, besides the old inscription on the passepartout, made it easy to attribute in a convincing manner the Christ Transfiguration to Castelli, and also to reconnect to it some other papers that presented almost identical typological characteristics.

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Auction Details

Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Engravings

by
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July 09, 2014, 07:00 AM PST

via Enrico Toti, 1, Verona, 37129, IT

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