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Francesca Volò Smiller, detta Francesca Vincenzina
Francesca Volò Smiller, known as Francesca Vincenzina, Still Life

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Francesca Volò Smiller, known as Francesca Vincenzina (Milan, 1657-1700) Still life with flowers, vegetables, bunches of grapes and putti Oil on canvas, 102x150 cm Oral communication by Prof. Gianluca Bocchi The discovery in 1998 of a number of canvases signed "FRANCESCA VICENZINA" by Gianluca and Ulisse Bocchi was the decisive impetus for a deeper cognitive understanding of an otherwise almost completely forgotten painter, whose works were regularly assigned by critics to the hand of her then better-known brother Giuseppe, whom we generally refer to as Vicenzino. Francesca Vincenzina was born and formed within the Volò family, a lineage of painters devoted to still life headed by her father Vincenzo and continued by her children Margherita, Francesca, Giovanna, Giulio, Giuseppe, Antonio, and granddaughter Domenica. All the chronological evidence leads us to consider Giovanna, of whom as yet we know of no paintings directly, and especially Francesca the sources on which Giuseppe may have drawn to develop his art: for his father died when he was only nine years old, while his older sister Margherita was already the wife of Ludovico Caffi and had settled in Cremona in 1667: this simple deduction provides us with a useful explanation for the fact that for so many years, without the comfort of the published signed canvases, of all the Vincenzini paintings a great heap was made that ended up behind the only one known, the youngest son Giuseppe. The careful, continuous and meticulous investigation, carried out first and foremost by Ulysses and Gianluca Bocchi, of the pictorial corpus from Giuseppe Vicenzino and that of his sister Francesca, on the other hand, now allows us to detect stylistic and chromatic differences in the work of the two Milanese artists: the painter, as evidenced by various works assigned to her, seems to love more than her brother the liquidity of the material, the squillanti tones and the looseness of execution: compared to what is found in Vincenzino's works, in Francesca's paintings the composition is freer and less preordained; the formal nonchalance of her signed canvases, the great expressive license and the deliberate, studied compositional disorder, constitute a fair thread for the correct attribution of her pictorial pieces. In the case under consideration here, the quick drafting and the manner in which the composition is conceived circumscribe the author's visual culture, while the definition of the image and the type of brushstroke respond with relevancy to her painterly making. Francesca's painting is certainly characterized by a high quality of execution, by the rendering of flowers through an intense and heartfelt naturalism, with a prevalence of acidic and cold colors brightened by touches of deep hues and illuminated by the skillful use of white. In this case, the floral part is married with a wide selection of fruits and vegetables-among which stand out the fresh grapes, with their brilliant light reflections, also present in other masterpieces of the painter, first of all the Still Life with Embossed Plate documented by an image in the Zeri photo library (card 79090) and passed for Sotheby's New York auction on January 30, 1997, and the celery also found in the composition of Natura morta con fiori, formerly at the D'Orlane Gallery in Casalmaggiore (Zeri photo library, card 86024) and in that of Natura morta con fiori e ortaggi passed for a Christie's London auction on December 15, 1983 (Zeri photo library, card 79127)-and with two gentle anthropomorphic figures, identifiable as putti or cupids. It is necessary to remember, moreover, how in the seventeenth century it was quite unusual for a woman, albeit born into a family of artists, to be the direct owner and preeminent figure within a workshop; in addition to her great pictorial expertise, it is the organizational and entrepreneurial drive that makes the character of Francesca Smiller Volò absolutely avant-garde for her time and, to this day, of absolute interest.

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Francesca Volò Smiller, detta Francesca Vincenzina (Italian)

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Height: 40.16 in (102 cm)Width: 59.06 in (150 cm)

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