Courtyard of a Palace by FABRIZIO GALLIARI
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Courtyard of a Palace by FABRIZIO GALLIARI
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Fabrizio Galliari followed his brother, Bernardino, to Milan, where he studied stage design. Although the early work of the two brothers is sometimes difficult to distinguish, Fabrizio soon focused more on architecture, ephemeral and real, while Bernardino concentrated on interior decoration. Working for ecclesiastic and aristocratic patrons throughout northern Italy, Fabrizio completed the trompe l’oeil dome of the Vercelli Cathedral, decorated the castle of Les Marches in Savoy, and painted a triumphal arch celebrating the arrival in Venice of Maria Amalia Walpurga of Poland, the future wife Prince Charles of Sicily (later Charles III of Spain). As a stage designer, Fabrizio worked primarily in Milan and Turin, as well as in Innsbruck, Paris and Vienna. With Bernardino, he developed a scheme of spatial composition, based on linear perspective construction that was still unusual at this time and became identified as the Galliari style. Contemporary critics, such as Algarotti and his disciple Milizia, praised the scenic style proposed by the fratelli Galliari, namely the use of noble forms from antiquity, facile and precise draftsmanship, strong color with contrasting light and shade, and naturalistic scale appropriate to contemporary aesthetic standards.
Exhibiting the angular perspective which made Fabrizio famous, this ink and wash drawing, undoubtedly a design for the stage, is possibly related to the opera Mitridate, performed in 1767 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, in which the set for scene 8, act 3, was described as a large courtyard with arcades (see M. Viale Ferrero, La Scenografia del ‘700 e I fratelli Galliari, Turin, 1963, p. 45, figs. 68-69). It is stylistically close to a set design of a courtyard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has similarly been linked to Mitridate (see M. Myers, Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, The Bibiena Family, & Other Italian Draughtsmen, New York, 1975, p. 25, no. 31 recto).
- Dimensions:Height: 9.25 in (23.5 cm)Width: 10.375 in (26.36 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:Italy, eighteenth century
- Condition:Excellent Antique.
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: EMD 181stDibs: U090602854390
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