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Fabrizio Chiari
Description
- Fabrizio Chiari
- The Death of Saint Anne
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Presumably commissioned from the artist along with another painting of the Assumption of the Virgin by Anna Colonna, wife of Principe Taddeo Barberini, the founder of the Church of Regina Coeli, Rome (see catalogue note).
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Condition
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Catalogue Note
We are grateful to Professor Claudio Strinati for identifying this altarpiece to be a work by Fabrizio Chiari and identifiable as the one recorded formerly in the Church of Regina Coeli. The church and attached convent were destroyed circa 1880 in order to make way for a large prison. The works housed in the church, including other pictures by Chiari, appear to have been dispersed at that time.
Fabrizio Chiari was an artist of some note in Rome in the 17th century, although he has been somewhat overlooked by modern scholars. He was allegedly an autodidact, though his early style certainly shows the influence of Poussin. He was awarded a number of fresco commissions and painted the Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau while working under Pietro da Cortona on the cycle of frescoes decorating the Sala Gialla in the Palazzo del Quirinale. Later in his career he painted a Chariot of Apollo for the ceiling of the Sala dei Specchi in the Palazzo Altieri, Rome.