Rosalba : prima pittrice de l'Europa

Exhibition at the Cini Collection in Venice of the C18th portrait painter Rosalba Carriera.

Rosalba specialised in portraits in pastels and exported her technique to France. A portrait by her become one of the main purchases on a Grand Tour. The exhibition included pictures commissioned by the English aristocracy on their travels and a wonderful set of clerical portraits.

This gallery itself was a real find and I can’t believe I had not head of it before. It contained Count Vittorio Cini’s collection of Tuscan art including a Peiro della Francesco, a Giotto, a Daddi and a Gaddi, a Filipo Lippi and wonderful Pontormo portrait of two gentlemen.

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