Ars Adriatica, No. 14, 2024.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.4642
To Juraj Pavlović: Portrait of Anna Maria Marovich with Her Parents (1846)
Ivana Mance Cipek
; Institut za povijest umjetnosti
Abstract
This paper discusses the existence of a portrait of the Marovich family that was previously considered lost, attributed to Juraj Pavlović based on the testimony of Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski. The portrait is held in the former Istituto Canal Marovich ai Servi in Venice. The painting is analysed here from an iconographic perspective, drawing attention to a detail of the letter that Anna Maria Marovich holds in her hands. Since the letter is from the Austrian Empress Maria Anna of Savoy, dated 1845, received as a sign of gratitude for the portrait Anna Maria had painted of the empress, it is suggested that this event was the immediate reason for commissioning the family portrait. This is supported by a written source that dates the painting to the summer of 1846. The work is further examined from a stylistic point of view, considering arguments for attributing it to Pavlović and proposing that it belongs to the painter’s second creative period. Various stylistic elements of this painting are compared to those in his other known works. Additionally, the painting is identified as a family portrait in terms of genre and valued as the only example of its kind in Pavlović’s opus. Finally, it is emphasized that Pavlović’s portraiture should be viewed in the context of stylistic continuity between Romanticism and early Biedermeier Realism.
Keywords
Juraj Pavlović; Anna Maria Marovich; portrait; 19th-century painting; Venice; Dalmatia
Hrčak ID:
325251
URI
Publication date:
26.12.2024.
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