Van Dyck

2016 · ref. 214212 — Genova: Sagep Editori 2016. Softcover. VG. Octavo. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 95 pages : illustrations chiefly color portraits ; 23 cm. Italian text. Published to coincide with the presentation of Anton van Dyck's Portrait of Desiderio Segno Liechtenstein - The Princely Collections Vaduz-Vienna at the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola in Genoa the volume presents new insights into the Flemish painter's relationships with the Genoese nobility. The exhibition also examines the works painted during his Sicilian sojourn between 1623 and 1624 during his stay in Genoa 1621-1627. In Palermo in the spring of 1624 the Antwerp artist met the famous painter Sofonisba Anguissola who had married the Genoese nobleman Orazio Lomellino in his second marriage. They settled in Genoa and then from 1615 in Palermo becoming a prominent figure in the Genoese colony residing in the city. In Sicily Van Dyck commissioned to create the effigy of the viceroy Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy also executed one of the painter continuing his by then established activity as a portraitist which he had begun in Genoa and which he resumed upon his return to the city in 1624 leaving behind precious pictorial testimonies as attested by the portraits now in Palazzo Spinola. The Palazzo Spinola collection preserves the memory of works related to Van Dyck from the Four Evangelists which are by a skilled follower of the master to the copy by an unknown local painter of his only painting intended for a sacred building in Liguria the dramatic Crucifixion for the church of San Michele di Pagana Rapallo. Exhibition: Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola Genoa Italy 10.11.2016-26.02.2017. Sagep Editori paperback books