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Citazione bibliografica

Cont, A., "Ove pennello industre l'imagin tua ritrasse": i gusti e gli studi del Giovin Signore nell'Italia del Settecento, "Rivista storica italiana", 128, 04, 2016, pp. 106-148

  • Autore/i
    Cont, A.
  • Titolo pubblicazione
    "Ove pennello industre l'imagin tua ritrasse": i gusti e gli studi del Giovin Signore nell'Italia del Settecento
  • Titolo giornale o rivista in cui è pubblicata
    "Rivista storica italiana"
  • Numero di serie del libro o giornale
    128
  • Mese
    04
  • Da pagina
    106
  • A pagina
    148
  • Abstract
    The portrait of Count Cesare Ferdinando Gini, now in the Collezioni Comunali d’Arte of Bologna, is a masterpiece of the Bolognese painter Luigi Crespi. Executed in 1759, the painting belongs to the series of portraits of the «principi» that each semester were elected at the head of the Academy of the Argonauts (Accademia degli Argonauti). This association founded in the seventeenth century brought together the most talented boarders of the Jesuit College of Nobles in Bologna, according to the custom of the Italians institutions ruled by religious for the education of young aristocrats. The portrait of Ferdinand Gini, in the tradition of the academies of the colleges in Bologna, Parma and Modena, depicts the «prince» surrounded by the symbols of the school subjects in which he excels most (the sword, the flag and the flute) and dressed and coiffed in style. Along with its high artistic quality, the picture of Luigi Crespi complies admirably with various cultural and social demands, dictated by the educational purposes of the Jesuits, by the strategies of dynastic self-representation of Count Gini and by the worldly tastes of the latter.