The essay presents an unpublished pencil portrait of Jacopo Alessandro Calvi in a private collection, which captures the scientist Eustachio Zanotti in profile. It also proposes to refer to Calvi’s hand the portrait of the same astronomer preserved in the university collections of Palazzo Poggi, on the basis of a comparison with a further oil portrait by him, also in a private collection, which came to us through the painter’s heirs and was painted in pairs with that of Calvi’s father, the spice merchant Giuseppe Maria, a great friend of the scientist. The painting in Palazzo Poggi is in fact currently in search of an authorship, after a past attribution to the name of Giampietro Zanotti, secretary of the Accademia Clementina, father of Eustachio as well as master of Jacopo Alessandro himself. The attributive hypothesis therefore widens Calvi’s known activity as a portraitist, to which the painter very rarely devoted himself, but that was very significant in order to document the literary interests cultivated by the young artist, and his academic and Arcadian acquaintances.

Nel contributo viene pubblicato un inedito ritratto a matita di Jacopo Alessandro Calvi in collezione privata, che coglie di profilo lo scienziato Eustachio Zanotti; si avanza inoltre la proposta di riferire alla mano di Calvi il ritratto del medesimo astronomo conservato nelle collezioni universitarie di Palazzo Poggi, sulla base del confronto con un suo ulteriore ritratto a olio, sempre in collezione privata, giunto a noi attraverso gli eredi del pittore e dipinto in coppia con quello del padre di Calvi, il mercante di spezie Giuseppe Maria, grande amico dello scienziato. Il quadro in Palazzo Poggi è infatti attualmente in cerca d’autore, dopo una passata attribuzione al nome di Giampietro Zanotti, segretario dell’Accademia Clementina, padre di Eustachio oltre che maestro dello stesso Jacopo Alessandro. L’ipotesi attributiva amplia dunque l’attività nota di Calvi in veste di ritrattista, cui il pittore si dedicò molto raramente, ma che fu assai significativa per documentare gli interessi anche letterari coltivati dal giovane artista, e le sue frequentazioni accademiche e arcadiche.

«Non volle perdersi a formar ritratti». Jacopo Alessandro Calvi e i ritratti di Eustachio Zanotti e degli Arcadi della Colonia Renia

Irene Graziani
2020

Abstract

The essay presents an unpublished pencil portrait of Jacopo Alessandro Calvi in a private collection, which captures the scientist Eustachio Zanotti in profile. It also proposes to refer to Calvi’s hand the portrait of the same astronomer preserved in the university collections of Palazzo Poggi, on the basis of a comparison with a further oil portrait by him, also in a private collection, which came to us through the painter’s heirs and was painted in pairs with that of Calvi’s father, the spice merchant Giuseppe Maria, a great friend of the scientist. The painting in Palazzo Poggi is in fact currently in search of an authorship, after a past attribution to the name of Giampietro Zanotti, secretary of the Accademia Clementina, father of Eustachio as well as master of Jacopo Alessandro himself. The attributive hypothesis therefore widens Calvi’s known activity as a portraitist, to which the painter very rarely devoted himself, but that was very significant in order to document the literary interests cultivated by the young artist, and his academic and Arcadian acquaintances.
2020
Irene Graziani
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