The_Death_of_Sophonisba_(Pittoni)

<i>The Death of Sophonisba</i> (Pittoni)

The Death of Sophonisba (Pittoni)

1716–1720 painting by Giambatista Pittoni

The Death of Sophonisba is a 1716–1720 oil on canvas painting of Sophonisba by Giambattista Pittoni, produced in Venice - a sketch or smaller copy was bought by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in 1723.[1] It was bought for the Hermitage Museum in 1773 by the court cellist G. Dal Olio, then placed in the Tauride Palace.[1] It was auctioned by Tsar Nicholas I in 1854 and bought by E.T. Zarudnoi-Cavos, then bought back by the Hermitage Museum in 1918.[1] It was finally transferred to its present home at the Pushkin Museum in 1930.[1] Its pair a Semiramis by the same artist, was in the Nikaelov collection in Paris before being bought by the Pushkin Museum in 1853.[2]

The Death of Sophonisba (1716–1720) by Giambattista Pittoni

Bibliography

  • (in Italian) Antichità viva, Volume 32, Edam, 1993
  • (in Italian) Franca Zava Boccazzi, Giambattista Pittoni, ed. Alfieri, 1979
  • (in Italian) N. Pozza, 'Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte', Volume 21, Istituto di storia dell'arte (Fondazione "Giorgio Cini"), 1997
  • (in Italian) F. Apolloni and M. Tazzoli, Antologia Di Belle Arti, 2000

References

  1. [1]
    "Catalogue entry".
  2. [2]
    (in Italian) Irina Artemʹeva, Giuseppe Bergamini, Giuseppe Pavanello, Capolavori nascosti dell'Ermitage: dipinti veneti del Sei e Settecento da Pietroburgo, Electa, 1998, (ISBN 8843565834)
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