Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy visiting the Princes Brancaccio
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy visiting the Princes Brancaccio
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Image View:
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Detail of the figures of the King and Queen, center
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Creator:
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Francesco Gai (Italian painter, 1835-1917)
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Location:
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repository: Museo di Roma (Rome, Lazio, Italy) MR 18428
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Braschi; Piazza Navona, 2 and Piazza San Pantaleo, 10
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GPS:
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+41.897444+12.472861
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Date:
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1886 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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oil paint on paper glued to wood panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Description:
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This study for a painting (never completed) shows the king and queen visiting the Palazzo Brancaccio (Rome) on May 22, 1886. In 1879, the Brancaccio family purchased a nunnery and gardens once belonging to the Clarisse Franciscan Sisters. Because the Via dello Statuto was being extended, the nunnery was mostly pulled down and a new residence built. The decorative project of the interiors, together with the conceiving of the nymphaeum and the coffee-house in the garden, were the result of the creativity of the Roman painter Francesco Gai (1835-1917) who began in 1879 as the family’s portraitist, and then received varied artistic orders from the family itself, up to the end of his life. (Source: Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale (Palazzo Brancaccio) [website]; http://www.museorientale.beniculturali.it/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-GAI-MOR-URM-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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