Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.47.92.7
Giuseppe Antonio Petrini in the collection of old masters of bishop Đuro Kokša
Sanja Cvetnić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0529-5229
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Picture of the Holy Family with little St. John the Baptist came to the collection of Bishop Đuro Kokša, probably between 1983 and 1989. The origin of the acquisition is unknown, but according to the stylistic features, the author's name to whom this excellent work can be attributed is clear, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini (Carona, canton Ticino, Oct 23, 1677 – Lugano, before Apr 8, 1759). Petrini was a late Baroque painter from Ticino, and he studied under Bartolomeo Gudiobono in Genoa (and probably also in Turin). He was praised by his contemporaries (Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Johann Caspar Füssli), and he was in demand by clients in Ticino and Lombardy, in particular. In the history of art, the most interesting are his solutions to the generational aspirations of the first decades of the seventeenth century (Italian: settecento) to resist the already hollow and tired gestures of the Baroque through the revival of early Baroque formulas, which Mina Gregori recognized as »an anti-baroque feeling with a foothold in a century older tradition« (Italian: neoseicentismo).
Keywords
Giuseppe Antonio Perini; collection of Bishop Đuro Kokša; late Baroque paintings; Ticino
Hrčak ID:
313282
URI
Publication date:
23.1.2024.
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