Attributed to Guido Ubaldo ABBATINI (Città di... Lot 17
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Attributed to Guido Ubaldo ABBATINI (Città di Castello 1600 ? - Roma 1656)
Portrait of Cardinal Orazio Giustiniani
Canvas.
98 x 73,5 cm
Molded and gilded wood frame, Roman work of the 18th century.
A bust of Cardinal Giustiniani is kept in the reading room of the Apostolic Library of the Vatican, a bust in the
Vatican, a bust in the museums of the same library.
The Vatican portrait has been attributed to the painter Guido Ubaldo Abbatini (Città di Castello 1600? - Roma 1656), a pupil and assistant of Bernini.
This painting probably derives from another portrait kept in a private collection in London, exhibited at the Museo di Roma in the Palazzo di Roma.
Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi in 2007 (La porpora romana Ritrattistica cardinalizia a Roma dal Rinascimento
al Novecento, Rome, 22 November 2006 - 25 February 2007).
The painting in London seems to be the original cited in the cardinal's death inventory (1649) where the name of the painter is
Ritratto di Nostro Signore del Signor Guido Abbatino.
Another portrait depicting Giustiniani in full, seated on an armchair and wearing the cardinal's habit with the red mozette
and the white lace rochet, is kept in the Episcopal Palace of Padua (anonymous Venetian, Portrait of Cardinal Orazio Giustiniani, canvas, 130 x 94 cm). Our painting seems to be inspired by this Paduan composition.
Orazio Giustiniani was born in 1580 in Chios, then a territory of the Republic of Genoa, and died in Rome in 1649.
A member of the Oratorian order, he was appointed bishop of Montalto in 1640, then of Nocera in 1645. Made cardinal
by Pope Innocent X during the consistory of March 6, 1645, he was appointed Librarian of the Vatican in 1646 and Grand Penitentiary in 1647 (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 57, 2001, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 354-356 ).
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