M
I
C
R
O
S
T
O
R
Y

O
F

A
R
T





........................................................

NOW COMPLETED:

........................................................

MICROSTORY OF ART
ONLINE JOURNAL FOR ART, CONNOISSEURSHIP
AND CULTURAL JOURNALISM
........................................................

INDEX | PINBOARD | MICROSTORIES |
FEATURES | SPECIAL EDITIONS |
HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION |
ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONNOISSEURSHIP |
SEARCH

........................................................

MICROSTORY OF ART
ONLINE JOURNAL FOR ART, CONNOISSEURSHIP
AND CULTURAL JOURNALISM
........................................................

***

ARCHIVE AND FURTHER PROJECTS

1) PRINT

***

2) E-PRODUCTIONS

........................................................

........................................................

........................................................

FORTHCOMING:

***

3) VARIA

........................................................

........................................................

........................................................

........................................................

........................................................

***

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH

........................................................

MICROSTORY OF ART
ONLINE JOURNAL FOR ART, CONNOISSEURSHIP AND CULTURAL JOURNALISM

HOME

The Giambono’s Provenance


(Picture: Villa I Tatti/flickr.com)

A picture that Bernard Berenson bought from Jean Paul Richter – the St. Michael Archangel Enthroned by Michele Giambono. Luisa Vertova recalls: »One day I praised to Berenson the subdued richness of its colors: the reds merging into the brown and gold, the yellowish green of the angels’ robes brought into relief by the bottle-green ground. Unlike the average collector, Berenson was critical of his possessions and praise elicited his severity. ›The colour, yes, is good. But don’t you see how hopeless the drawing is? It looks like a paper doll with a paper dress on that is too big for it. All the same‹, he added, ›those arabesques on the dress, and the dragon’s tail, are gorgeous.‹« (source: Great Private Collections, ed. by Douglas Cooper (1963), wherein Luisa Vertova speaks about the Berenson collection)


A picture with Luisa Vertova, at right, and Bernard Berenson (source: oralhistory.itatti.harvard.edu)

Back to the starting page of Dietrich Seybold’s homepage: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/HomePage


© DS

Zuletzt geändert am 09 September 2017 20:27 Uhr
Bearbeiten - Druckansicht

Login