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Angelo MonticelliBy Angelo Monticelli, Dancing Putti19thC
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Angelo Monticelli (Milan, 1778-1837), attr.
Dancing putti
Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 131 cm
The canvas presented here, referable to the 19th century, constituted an exquisite example of a painting made to decorate a boiserie, as evidenced by the particularity of the format and the ornamental subject matter.
The theme of dancing putti takes up a widely used and experimented model around the 1620s, on which the greatest artists tried their hand: pordenone, author of the Dance of Putti now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, for example, was able to make use of multiple visual models to fine-tune this complex and original composition, such as having known Marcantonio Raimondi's famous engraving with a gyre of cupids, derived from an invention of Raphael himself and dated between 1517 and 1520. Over the following centuries, the fame of this prissy subject was never diminished.
In fact, the work under consideration can be attributed to the hand of 18th-century artist Angelo Monticelli, who specialized in tempera drawing and was a pupil of painter Andrea Appiani (1754-1817), active mainly in Lombardy, where, for the Teatro alla Scala he designed the figures of the box parapets (1807) and the curtain (1821). In 1826, during the repainting of Ferrara's Municipal Theater, Monticelli decorated the plafond with an Apotheosis of Lodovico Ariosto. The curtain of the Rossini Theater in Pesaro is also by his hand. For the Duke of Lodi Francesco Melzi d'Eril and under the direction of the architect Giocondo Albertolli, based on a design by Giuseppe Bossi, he decorated in chiaroscuro the altar niche of the aristocratic chapel of Villa Melzi in Bellagio with a figure of the Eternal Father and the Four Evangelists in the pendentives of the dome. For the pulvinare hall of the Civic Arena in Milan he painted in faux stucco the frieze with figures, while at the Royal Palace his is the fresco with the theme Jupiter Thundering that adorns the Hall of Columns. Monticelli was also the designer of a series of illustrations in the successful 21-volume illustrated publication Il Costume antico e moderno di tutti i popoli dell'Europa (The Ancient and Modern Costume of All the Peoples of Europe) by the learned Braidense Library librarian Giulio Ferrario. Also pleasing from a chiaroscuro point of view, the illustrations restore the colors of the clothing, customs and habits of the various peoples described, even presenting monuments and buildings that no longer exist today.
The little angels that adorn this panel, which probably served the function of a door overlay, echo, in composition, those that appear in the monochrome painting made for Villa Carlotta, in Tremezzina, and currently still in situ. The painting's bright and garish colors perfectly match the characteristics of both the artist's private and theater production. Bright, vivid hues are the trademark of Monticelli's works, which aim to capture the eye of their viewer.
- Creator:Angelo Monticelli (1778 - 1837, Italian)
- Creation Year:19thC
- Dimensions:Height: 48.04 in (122 cm)Width: 51.58 in (131 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:122,5 x 131 cmPrice: $5,237
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- Gallery Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2639215782642
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