Gemalt für Kaiser Ferdinand I. von Österreich: I due Foscari von Michelangelo Grigoletti (Curator’s Choice, Nr. 1, 2022)

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Title:: Gemalt für Kaiser Ferdinand I. von Österreich: I due Foscari von Michelangelo Grigoletti (Curator’s Choice, Nr. 1, 2022)

Artist:: Grigoletti, Michelangelo

Author:: Grabner, Sabine

Keyword:: Grigoletti; Venedig; Giuseppe Verdi; Romanticismo; Lombardo-venezianisches Königreich; Kaiser Ferdinand I. von Österreich; Hayez; kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie

Issuing body:: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Physical location:: Bibliothek des Belvedere, Wien

Place of publication:: Wien

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Curator's Choice

Year of publication:: 2022

Credits:: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere / Autor*innen

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Language:: German

Number of digitised pages:: 7

Language | Scripts of material:: ger

Persistent identifier:: 1642602284524

License:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.57836/erst-jq38

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Abstract

The story depicted in this painting took place in Venice in the mid-fifteenth century. Francesco Foscari was doge of the maritime republic for thirty-four years, the longest serving ruler of La Serenissima. His most harrowing experience was the banishment of his son Giacomo to the island of Crete, which, despite his high office, he was unable to prevent. The painting shows him with his family and in the presence of some officials as he distances himself from his son’s fate and bids him farewell. The scene is set in a room in the Doge’s Palace; through the windows one of the lead domes on the roof of Saint Mark’s Basilica can be seen.

This subject was very popular in the mid-nineteenth century in northern Italy. The composer Giuseppe Verdi, for instance, based his opera I due Foscari on the theme. In addition to this work by Michelangelo Grigoletti, Francesco Hayez also explored the fate of the Foscari family in a painting. The two works were created in 1840 and 1843 for the Imperial Picture Gallery in Vienna. They had been commissioned by Emperor Ferdinand I, who, as king of Lombardy-Venetia, wanted the paintings and sculptures by the greatest artists from this region represented in his collection. Hayez’s painting was sold at auction in Milan after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy along with several other works, including examples by Giuseppe Molteni, Domenico Induno, and Andrea Appiani; the sculptures by Innocenzo Fraccaroli and Democrito Gandolfi have been in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum since the 1890s. Works still in the Belvedere’s collection from the time of the kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia include paintings by Luigi Sabatelli, Giuseppe Bisi, Giuseppe Diotti, and as – shown here – I due Foscari by Grigoletti.

Keywords:

Grigoletti – Hayez – Venice – Romanticismo – Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria – Imperial Picture Gallery – Giuseppe Verdi

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