Bernini the painter: the reappearance of the Costa ‘Portrait of a Young Man'

The author presents a painting that in 1951 was published by Luigi Grassi as an autograph work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, after which it received no further scholarly attention, having never been photographed in colour, and never exhibited. Examination of the work has made it possible to confirm the attribution to Bernini and date the work to around 1635, that is, at the time of the artist's greatest affinity with the painting of Diego Velázquez.
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PROSPETTIVA - 163/164 (July-October 2016) PDF

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pag. 184-185
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Aegyptiaca ligoriana: Isis and the “gran bubo” from Hadrian's Villa to the gardens of the Quirinale
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The San Clemente polyptych by Agostino De Marchi and Marco Zoppo: documents, chronology and style
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Angiolo Del Santo, a sculptor dedicated to graphic work on the covers of 'Vita d'Arte'
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A new tomb of the Late Orientalising period found in Tivoli in the context of relations between the Valle dell'Aniene and the adjoining Italic communities
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Three identifications of ancient statues from the engravings of Giovanni Battista de Cavalieri
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“Bonamicho excellentissimo maestro”. On Luciano Bellosi's Buffalmacco
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Trionfalmacco per Pisa
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The fragmentary epigraph painted in the 'Resurrection' by Piero della Francesca: a hypothetical reconstruction
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New research on San Giovanni di Verdara in Padua: Bishop Pietro Barozzi and the workshop of Pierantonio Degli Abati
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On the early activity of Antoniazzo Romano: the 'Madonna del Buon Consiglio' triptych for Zagarolo
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A 'Young Saint John the Baptist' in terracotta by Andrea Sansovino
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A clarification regarding the “scrittoio” of Margaret of Parma
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A long misunderstanding: 'Saints James the Less and Philip' by Paolo Veronese from Lecce to Dublin
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Another trace of Tanzio in Naples
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Bernini the painter: the reappearance of the Costa 'Portrait of a Young Man'
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Notes on a 17th-century guide to Rome from the library of Giuliano Briganti
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