Giovanni di Pietro Faloppi
Giovanni di Pietro Faloppi (Falloppi), also known as Giovanni da Modena ( 1379 ? In Modena - 1456 ?), Was an Italian painter who worked in Bologna from 1409 to 1451 .
Life
The first reliable mention of this painter, who was born in Modena and mainly active in Bologna, comes from July 17, 1409, when he was quoted as a painter in a will and thus in adulthood. For almost four decades, Giovanni da Modena dominated the panorama of the Bolognese art culture, which gathered around the important construction site of San Petronio and gave foreign artists new appearances in the city, also attracted by the persistence of the court of the new Pope - the one elected in 1410 Antipope John XXIII. The work of Giovanni da Modena is examined in the essays accepted in the volume in relation to the Bolognese art scene of the time and also in relation to other artistic fields such as miniature. He devoted himself to sculpture, the dialogue that began with some personalities of the time, such as Alberto da Campione and Jacopo della Quercia. The volume is supplemented by bibliographic devices.
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His pictorial narratives are full-bodied and lively, with bizarre details and some gloom, sometimes full of realistic or macabre details, such as the drop of blood that flows onto the body of his imposing crucifix from around 1415 in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna . Also in the Pinacoteca Nazionale is a panel painting depicting Bernardine of Siena and stories from his life, which was painted around 1451 for the Basilica di San Francesco in Bologna. In the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, Giovanni da Modena created extensive frescoes in the Bolognini Chapel around 1411/12, depicting the life of St. Petronius of Bologna , the stories of the Magi , as well as Paradise and the Last Judgment . The frescoes of the Last Judgment on the left wall are based on descriptions from Dante's Divine Comedy . Research into this fresco decoration is still relatively new. In his effective book Le Vite de 'più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori from 1568, the Italian architect, court painter and biographer Giorgio Vasari incorrectly referred the authorship to the Florentine Buonamico Buffalmacco , who, however, had lived much earlier and therefore did not paint the frescoes it is a possibility. The early loss of historical information on Giovanni da Modena in the Bolognese sources is due to the disinformation caused by the Vasari reception.
literature
- AA.VV., Enciclopedia Europea Garzanti , 1977
- Daniele Benati, Massimo Medica (ed.): Giovanni da Modena. Un pittore all'ombra di San Petronio , Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2014, ISBN 978-88-366-3033-2 .
- F. Filippini, G. Zucchini, Miniatori e pittori a Bologna. Documenti del sec. XV , Rome 1968, pp. 84-89
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ F. Filippini / G. Zucchini, Miniatori e pittori a Bologna. Documenti del sec. XV, Rome 1968, pp. 84-89
- ^ Giorgio Vasari, Le vite, 1568, edited by G. Milanesi, I, Florence 1878, p. 506 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faloppi, Giovanni di Pietro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Falloppi, Giovanni di Pietro; Modena, Giovanni there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1379 |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1456 |