This research work aims to reconstruct, through the analysis of the historical and cultural events that involved Ferrara and the Este court at the end of the Sixteenth century, the Alessandro d’Este’s education to demonstrate its fundamental role in the creation of his Roman collection and in the dissemination of Ferrara paintings in the art collections of the papal city at the beginning of the Seventeenth century. Starting from the studies already published on his personality regards his art collection and his political role in the complex events of the Devolution to the Papal State of 1598, the analysis on Alessandro was conducted through the deepening of his artistic training within the great painters of the Ferrara manner, above all thanks to the practice of drawing learned from Bastarolo, and on the residences of his childhood, where he was able to build and exercise his taste as a collector. The Roman court of the Estense cardinal is in continuity with the Renaissance treatises and, at the same time, is innovative for his role as patron of artists, as in the cases of Lavinia Fontana, Annibale Mancini and Emmanuel Sbaigher found in the archive documents, and for the paintings collection with a strong identity character, which perfectly reflect the personality and role of Alessandro within the papal court. These two aspects, thanks to the enucleation of some information emerged from archival research, have helped to confirm that the presence of Cardinal d’Este in Rome was one of the reasons that led to a radical change of interest from collecting Sixteenth century antiquities to painting in seventeenth century. On this way, some of Alessandro’s choices are fundamental, such as to display copies made by contemporary Ferrarese artists next to some original paintings of Renaissance or to realize a portrait gallery as suggested by Giovan Battista Marino in his Galeria. All the protagonists of the complex affair are concretized in the prelate’s will, where the important link with the cardinals Borghese and Barberini emerges, made even more solid by the presence at their courts, on his death, of Annibale Mancini and Emmanuel Sbaigher, heirs, propagators and bearers of the Estense figurative memory in the Roman residences of the Seventeenth century.

Questo lavoro di ricerca intende ricostruire, attraverso l’analisi degli eventi storico-culturali che coinvolsero Ferrara e la corte Estense alla fine del XVI secolo, il tessuto formativo del cardinale Alessandro d’Este per dimostrare il suo ruolo fondamentale nella realizzazione della sua collezione romana e nella diffusione della pittura ferrarese nelle raccolte d’arte della capitale pontificia di inizio Seicento. A partire dallo stato degli studi già effettuati sulla sua personalità sia per quanto riguarda le raccolte d’arte, sia per quanto concerne il suo ruolo politico nel complesso scacchiere della Devoluzione allo Stato Pontificio del 1598, è stata portata avanti un’indagine sulla formazione artistica di Alessandro in seno ai grandi pittori della Maniera ferrarese, soprattutto grazie alla pratica del disegno appresa dal Bastarolo, e sui luoghi della sua infanzia, dove ha potuto costruire ed esercitare il suo gusto come collezionista. La corte romana del porporato Estense si pone in continuità con la trattatistica rinascimentale e, al tempo stesso, risulta di grande innovazione in particolare per il suo ruolo di protettore di artisti, come nei casi di Lavinia Fontana, Annibale Mancini ed Emmanuel Sbaigher restituiti dai documenti d’archivio, e per la raccolta di pitture, un nucleo di opere dal forte carattere identitario, che rispecchiano alla perfezione la personalità e il ruolo di Alessandro all’interno della corte pontificia. Questi due aspetti, grazie all’enucleazione di alcune notizie emerse dalle ricerche archivistiche, hanno contribuito a confermare che la presenza del cardinale Estense a Roma è stato uno dei motivi che hanno condotto a un radicale cambiamento di interesse dal collezionismo di antichità cinquecentesco a quello pittorico secentesco. In tal senso, risultano fondamentali alcune scelte di Alessandro, come quella di esporre accanto ad alcuni dipinti originali della pittura del Rinascimento delle copie realizzati da artisti ferraresi contemporanei o di realizzare una galleria di ritratti così come suggerito da Giovan Battista Marino nella sua Galeria. Tutti gli attori della complessa vicenda si concretizzano all’interno del testamento del prelato ferrarese, dove emerge l’importante legame con i cardinali Borghese e Barberini, reso ancora più saldo dalla presenza presso le loro corti, alla sua morte, di Annibale Mancini ed Emmanuel Sbaigher, eredi, propagatori e traghettatori della memoria figurativa estense nelle dimore romane del Seicento.

Rifar Ferrara in Roma. Alessandro d’Este, un cardinale dimezzato tra diplomazia e collezionismo

SCANU, LARA
2022

Abstract

This research work aims to reconstruct, through the analysis of the historical and cultural events that involved Ferrara and the Este court at the end of the Sixteenth century, the Alessandro d’Este’s education to demonstrate its fundamental role in the creation of his Roman collection and in the dissemination of Ferrara paintings in the art collections of the papal city at the beginning of the Seventeenth century. Starting from the studies already published on his personality regards his art collection and his political role in the complex events of the Devolution to the Papal State of 1598, the analysis on Alessandro was conducted through the deepening of his artistic training within the great painters of the Ferrara manner, above all thanks to the practice of drawing learned from Bastarolo, and on the residences of his childhood, where he was able to build and exercise his taste as a collector. The Roman court of the Estense cardinal is in continuity with the Renaissance treatises and, at the same time, is innovative for his role as patron of artists, as in the cases of Lavinia Fontana, Annibale Mancini and Emmanuel Sbaigher found in the archive documents, and for the paintings collection with a strong identity character, which perfectly reflect the personality and role of Alessandro within the papal court. These two aspects, thanks to the enucleation of some information emerged from archival research, have helped to confirm that the presence of Cardinal d’Este in Rome was one of the reasons that led to a radical change of interest from collecting Sixteenth century antiquities to painting in seventeenth century. On this way, some of Alessandro’s choices are fundamental, such as to display copies made by contemporary Ferrarese artists next to some original paintings of Renaissance or to realize a portrait gallery as suggested by Giovan Battista Marino in his Galeria. All the protagonists of the complex affair are concretized in the prelate’s will, where the important link with the cardinals Borghese and Barberini emerges, made even more solid by the presence at their courts, on his death, of Annibale Mancini and Emmanuel Sbaigher, heirs, propagators and bearers of the Estense figurative memory in the Roman residences of the Seventeenth century.
BITOSSI, Carlo Paolo
CAPPELLETTI, Francesca
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