Saint Andrew by Leandro Gagliardi
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Saint Andrew

Leandro Gagliardi · 1765/66

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Commissioned by Cardinal Flavio II Chigi, Rome, before 1776 [see González-Palacios 1993 and Philadelphia 2000 exh. cat.]; by descent to Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere (died 1951), Rome [according to letter from Giovanni Incisa della Rocchetta to A. S. Ciechanowiecki, May 17, 1971, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his nephew, Prince Mario Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, Rome [according to an undated, anonymous note; June 15, 1971 memo by John Keefe; and Heim Gallery correspondence in curatorial file; see also Keefe 1977]. Heim Gallery, London, through Artibus, Geneva, by 1971; sold by Heim Gallery to the Art Institute, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century," 16 March - 28 May 2000, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 25 June - 17 September 2000, cat. 72.

Literature

Published references

  • Romolo Trinchieri, "Una villa settecentessca poco nota: Villa Chigi," Amor di Roma 30 (1955), p. 420.
  • Giovanni Incisa della Rocchetta, "Villa Chigi," Capitolium 36, 8 (August 1961), p. 6.
  • Isa Belli Barsali, Ville di Roma (Milan, 1970), pp. 334 nos. 4 and 6, 339.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1970–71, p. 80 (ill.).
  • Vincenzo Golzio, Palazzi Romani, dalla Rinascita al neoclassico (Bologna, 1971), p. 85, fig. 93.
  • "Museum Accessions," Antiques 51, 4 (April 1972), p. 636 (ill.).
  • John W. Keefe, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Chicago, 1977), p. 94.
  • Alvar González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi (Milan, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 185–87; vol. 2, figs. 317, 321.
  • Ghenete Zelleke, "David Adler: Benefactor and Trustee," David Adler, Architect, edited by Martha Thorne (Chicago, 2002), p. 66.

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