The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca recently acquired a new work in its collection: the Crucified Christ Triumphing over Death, Evil and Sin by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Paolo Guidotti, the Cavalier Borghese.
"After The Portrait of the Poetess Teresa Bandettini by Angelica Kaufmann," explains Foundation President Massimo Marsili, "a second work by a female painter enriches the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca. It is the Crucified Christ Triumphing over Death, Evil and Sin by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Paolo Guidotti, the Cavalier Borghese. Giovanni Baglione in his Lives of 1642 describes her as a woman educated to independence and from a very young age introduced by her father to painting and humanistic studies and deeply attached to her father. The painting was commissioned from her by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Guido di Bagno and is inspired by the composition of the same title painted in 1621 by her father at the behest of Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII, which is now preserved at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. We know little about Giustiniana Guidotti."
"One of his works, theAllegory of Poetry and Music,“ he continues, ”is preserved in a Milanese collection. Its name Giustiniana is probably a tribute to Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani and his brother Vincenzo, patrons and collectors as well as admirers of Caravaggio, whose fifteen works they owned as documented. Her artistic biography is all to be discovered and interpreted. Some scholars consider her an exponent of the transition from Caravaggism to Baroque classicism and particularly active in the composition of devotional works of art also inspired by Flemish influences. It is my hope that the purchase of the work and these few notes may solicit attention to this painter, who like others of her time and beyond, has struggled and struggles to find proper recognition in art history. Her biography does not record physical and moral violence and prevarication, but like other women artists, the lack of recognition of her work has over time produced a disinterest manifested in the few and sometimes indirect studies tributed to her and in the approximate knowledge of the location of her works. The choice of this acquisition has a twofold purpose: to enhance the role of a woman artist and to increase the collection, destined for permanent exhibition in the future Center of the Arts, complementing it with works by female artists not present to date."
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