Concert by Niccolò dell'Abbate

Concert, mal. Niccolo dell 'Abbate, XVIIw, painting from the Sleeping Room of Queen Maria Kazimiera in the Wilanow Palace. Fig. Z. Reszka.

"A public spectacle, a wonderful performance on the stage of dramatic works whose poems are sung and accompanied by instrumental music, dances, ballets, [spectacles] with enchanting costumes and decorations and amazing machinery," wrote Frenchman Antoine Furetière, defining the phenomenon of the 17th century opera Dictionnaire universel. The seductive power and the charm of the opera surrendered to almost the whole of Europe, in particular its Italian variation became the passion of both the monarchs who patronized the creation of new works and the simple men who had longed for the time of the famous arias.

Artist Niccolò dell'Abbate
Title Concert.
Date 1540s
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 125 × 261 cm (49.2 × 102.8 in)
Current location
Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów Link back to Institution infobox template wikidata:Q277333
Accession number Wil.1456
Notes Composition based on a fresco in the Galleria Estense in Modena, Italy.
References Jan Białostocki, Maria Murdzeńska, Danuta Książkiewicz, Jan Kuglin (1969). Catalogue of paintings: foreign schools. Vol. 1. National Museum in Warsaw, cat. no. 2, p. 17
Source/Photographer www.wilanow-palac.pl

Niccolò dell'Abbate
1512 - 1571

Niccolò dell'Abbate, was an Italian Mannerist painter in fresco and oils He was of the Emilian school, and was part of the team of artists called the School of Fontainebleau that introduced the Italianate Renaissance to France.

He trained together with Alberto Fontana in the studio of Antonio Begarelli, a local Modenese sculptor; early influences included Ferrarese painters such as Garofalo and Dosso Dossi He specialized in long friezes with secular and mythological subjects, including for the Palazzo dei Beccherie (1537); in various rooms of the Rocca di Scandiano owned by the counts Boiardo he created 12 frescoes, one for each book of The Aenid, and notably a courtly ceiling Concert composed of a ring of young musicians seen in perspective, Sotto in Su (early 1540s), and the Hercules Room in the Rocca Meli Lupi at Soragna (c 1540–43), and possibly the loggia frescoes removed from Palazzo Casotti at Reggio Emilia

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His style was modified by exposure to Correggio and Parmigianino, when he moved to Bologna in 1547 In Bologna, most of his painting depicted elaborate landscapes and aristocratic genre scenes of hunting and courtly loves, often paralleled in mythologic narratives It was during this time that he decorated the Palazzo Poggi, and executed a cycle of frescoes illustrating Orlando Furioso in the ducal palace at Sassuolo, near Modena Bologna is also the location of his illustrations for Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and where he was celebrated in a sonnet which compares him to Raphael and Titian among others One of his early pieces that cemented his reputation was the Martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul, in the church of the abbey of San Pietro, Modena

Niccolò is best known for his mythological landscape subjects, which introduced the Flemish world landscape into French art, such as the Orpheus and Landscape with the Death of Eurydice in the National Gallery, London and the Rape of Prosperine in the Louvre, and for his profuse and elegant drawings Not many of his frescoes have survived; however the Louvre does have a collection of his drawings Many of his canvasses were burnt in 1643, by the Austrian regent, Anne Some of his landscapes for Charles IX were influential for the 17th century painters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina

The National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) of Argentina is located on Avenida del Libertador 1473, Buenos Aires.

It was inaugurated on 25 December 1896 and the opening was attended by numerous personalities. Among them was Nicaraguan writer, Rubén Darío, a referent of modernity. Its first Director was Eduardo Schiaffino.

The Bon Marché on the Calle Florida, was the precursory site for Argentina’s first art museum and had been built to house a department store. The absence of public buildings undoubtedly led to the MNBA setting out in this commercial mall, built in the style of its namesake in Paris.
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