Scipione Pulzone

Scipione Pulzone, self-portrait around 1574

The woman in red - Musée d'art et d'histoire de Cognac

Scipione Pulzone (* 1550 in Gaeta , † 1598 ), called Il Gaetano was an Italian painter of Mannerism .

Life

Pulzone worked as a painter in Rome . He was influenced by Jacopino del Conte († 1598). Above all, he distinguished himself as an excellent portrait painter . Among other things, he painted portraits of the popes of Pius V , Julius III. and Gregory XIII. He also portrayed Cardinal Medici, Grand Duke Ferdinando I de 'Medici , Eleonora de' Medici and Maria de 'Medici .

In the Bandinikapelle the Roman Church of San Silvestro al Quirinale his work depends of the Assumption of Mary and in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella the work of Christ on the Cross with Saints (Crocefissione) .

Works (selection)

• Maddalena (1574), Rome, Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
• Immacolata Concezione (1581), Ronciglione , Chiesa dei Cappuccini
• Assunzione di Maria (1585), Rome, San Silvestro al Quirinale
• Crocefissione (1592), Rome, Santa Maria in Vallicella
• Pietà (1591), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Ritratto del Cardinale Ricci , London, National Gallery
• Sacra famiglia , Rome, Borghese Gallery
• Pio V , Rome, Galleria Colonna
• Portrait of Bianca Cappello , Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
• Famiglia di Alfonso Gonzaga , Rome, Galleria Colonna
• Portrait of Jacopo Boncompagni (again, after a few detours, in private possession since 1989), painted in 1574

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  Maddalena al sepolcro , 1585–1590 ( Fondazione Cariplo )

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  Portrait of Maria de 'Medici

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  Lamentation of Christ (1593)

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  Portrait of Julius III

literature

• Stefano De Mieri:  PULZONE, Scipione, detto Scipione da Gaeta o Gaetano. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 85:  Ponzone-Quercia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2016.

Web links

Commons : Scipione Pulzone  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pulzone, Scipione, detto il Gaetano /. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome.
• Illustration from Scipione Pulzone's The Lamentation in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Scipione Pulzone (1548–1598) - Il pittore della "Madonna della divina providenza". Article by Augusto Donò, accessed on February 1, 2013 (PDF file, Italian; 369 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michele D'Innella: Guida Rossa Roma. Touring Club Italiano , Milan 2004, p. 345.
2. ↑ Michele D'Innella: Guida Rossa Roma. Touring Club Italiano, Milan 2004, p. 231.
3. ↑ National Gallery London ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ faz.net: Auction week in New York, “Now the old masters are getting up”.