PITTORE DEL XVI-XVII SECOLO Lot n° 1139

Portrait of Enea Bianchini Oil on canvas, 114X96 cm Inscribed on canvas: ENEA BIANCHINI CAV/RE COLL. OF S. CHURCH UNDER PAUL III AND CLEM. VII AET: SVI/AN. XXXV Inscribed on verso of canvas: Del Sen/re Co. Ant. Bianchini 1704 The portrait is undoubtedly celebratory and depicts Enea Bianchini, colonel of the Holy Roman Church under Clement VII and Paul III, made a knight in 1525. The Bianchini family is of Bolognese origin and their lineage is recorded as far back as 948. The last member of the Bianchini family was Anna Werburga, daughter of Count Prospero of Senator Antonio Giuseppe, and Marquise Maria Angiola Zagnoni (1740), so it is assumed that the inscription on the verso of the canvases was placed during a hereditary succession. Stylistically, the canvas evokes the modes of Roman portraiture of the first decades of the 17th century, influenced by the typologies of Ottavio Leoni and Pietro Facchetti.