OnFriday, June 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in the Conference Room on the second floor of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, there will be a presentation of the volume Correggio: the Young Unnamed from the Este, Sforza and Barberini Collections. Studies and Research, edited by Olga Piccolo(Scripta edizioni, 2025). Admission is free while places last.
The book tells the complex and fascinating story of an oil panel on walnut (60.5 x 46.4 cm), known as The Unnamed Young Man Flees in the Capture of Christ, rediscovered among new attributions to Correggio on the occasion of the famous 1935 monographic exhibition at the Pilotta in Parma.
The painting, datable to around 1530, had been reported in London by art historian Georg Gronau, who identified it as the possible Barberini original, long thought to be lost. Passed at auction in 1949 by Parke-Bernet in New York, it was purchased by patron Frederick William Schumacher, who donated it to the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio, USA) in 1957. In 2012 the work was again sold at auction by Christie’s, before returning to the market and attracting new attention.
The volume reconstructs the work’s collecting history: probably commissioned by the Este family, it was present in the late 16th century in the Sforza di Santa Fiora collection, then in the Barberini from 1630 until the sales of Cornelia Costanza Barberini around 1767, then passing through the hands of English antiquarian Thomas Jenkins and other international collections.
Edited by Olga Piccolo, the book is the result of a choral project involving multiple scholars and tackling the case of the “Unnamed Young Man” in an interdisciplinary way, investigating both the iconographic theme of the young fugitive in the scene of Christ’s capture and the dynamics of the work’s dispersion and recovery.
The presentation is part of the program to enhance the collections and research of Renaissance art promoted by Palazzo Barberini, and is an opportunity to discover one of the lesser-known but most compelling chapters in the critical and collecting fortunes of Antonio Allegri known as Correggio.
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