1781
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Study for "The Apotheosis of Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina, King and Queen of Naples" (for the Palazzo dei Regi Studi, Naples) is a 1781 unspecified by Pietro Bardellino, a Rococo painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a royal scene with King Ferdinand IV and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples. It's a study for a bigger work. The artist likely made it to plan the final piece. You can see the king and queen in the center, surrounded by other figures. The painting is a rough sketch, not a finished work. It helps us understand how the artist planned the final painting. To learn more about this style of art, look at the technique of sfumato.
This large oil painting was thought to be an early, rough sketch for the ceiling of the Salone de Biblioteca Antica in the Palazzo degli Studi in Naples. The attribution to Bardellino was based on the sketch's similarity to another sketch by the artist, sold in New York in 1972, which is more closely related to the ceiling painting. It is assumed that the Cleveland work preceded the more finished oil sketch and that both models were created in preparation for the Palazzo degli Studi's Apotheosis, completed in 1781. The Cleveland sketch was almost completely altered in the final composition.…
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Pietro Bardellino was an Italian painter in the Rococo style.
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