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Salvator Rosa, Attr. to
The Ambush

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Gaetano Gandolfi - Bust of an Old Man with a Rosary

Gaetano Gandolfi
Bust of an Old Man with a Rosary

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Ubaldo Gandolfi - Bust of an Old Man Leaning on a Staff

Ubaldo Gandolfi
Bust of an Old Man Leaning on a Staff

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Giovanni Sanguinetti - The Roman Women Bring their Gold and Jewellery to the Treasury as a Token of Their Faith and Their Love of Country

Giovanni Sanguinetti
The Roman Women Bring their Gold and Jewellery to the Treasury as a Token of Their Faith and Their Love of Country

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Giuseppe Bezzuoli The death of Filippo Strozzi in Castel San Giovanni

Giuseppe Bezzuoli
The death of Filippo Strozzi in Castel San Giovanni

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Enrico Albricci The Marriage Cycle

Enrico Albricci
The Marriage Cycle

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Bartolomeo Pinelli - The Popular Improviser in the Campo Vaccino

Bartolomeo Pinelli
The Popular Improviser in the Campo Vaccino

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Felice Giani - St. Florian, Accompanied by St. Petronius, Intercedes with the Virgin for the Plague to Cease in the City of Bologna

Felice Giani
St. Florian, Accompanied by St. Petronius, Intercedes with the Virgin for the Plague to Cease in the City of Bologna

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Lancelot – Théodore Turpin De Crissé Landscape with Bacchanalia

Lancelot – Théodore Turpin De Crissé
Landscape with Bacchanalia

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The attribution of the series rests primarily on m The attribution of the series rests primarily on matters of style.

The physiognomies, the elongated facial ovals, the almond-shaped eyes, and the treatment of the drapery all find close parallels in works of Carlo Francesco Mellone, one of the leading sculptors active in Lombardy during the first decades of the eighteenth century.

Born in Milan in 1670, Mellone trained under Carlo Simonetta before completing his artistic education in Rome. Upon returning to his native city, he became a central figure in the renewal of Lombard sculpture, combining lessons absorbed from the Roman Baroque with a lighter and more refined sensibility that would come to define the Milanese barocchetto. The Summer belongs fully to this artistic climate and stands among its most persuasive expressions.

Carlo Francesco Mellone (?), Allegory of Summer, from the series of the Four Seasons, c. 1720–1735, terracotta, h. 84 cm.

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What distinguishes this figure is not its symbolis What distinguishes this figure is not its symbolism, but its construction.

The drapery alternates between broad, taut surfaces and unexpectedly sharp breaks; the pose unfolds through a subtle contrapposto; the entire composition seems governed by an equilibrium between movement and restraint.

Such qualities belong to the language of Lombard sculpture during the first decades of the eighteenth century, when the grand rhetoric of the High Baroque gave way to a more measured and refined idiom. The result is a figure animated by movement, yet never by agitation.

Carlo Francesco Mellone (?), Allegory of Summer, from the series of the Four Seasons, c. 1720–1735, terracotta, h. 84 cm.

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