Scipione Pulzone

Scipione Pulzone (* 1550 in Gaeta, † 1598 ), known as Il Gaetano was an Italian painter of the Mannerist.

Life

As a painter Pulzone was active in Rome. He was influenced by Jacopino del Conte. He distinguished himself mainly as an outstanding portraitist. He painted portraits of the Popes, among others, by Pius V., Julius III. and Gregory XIII. He also portrayed the Cardinal Medici, the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Eleonora de' Medici and Maria de ' Medici.

In the Bandinikapelle the Roman church of San Silvestro al Quirinale his work of the Assumption of Mary, and in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, the work of Christ on the cross with the Saints ( Crocefissione ).

Works (selection)

  • Maddalena ( 1574 ), Rome, Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
  • Immaculate Conception ( 1581), Ronciglione, Chiesa dei Cappuccini '
  • Assumption of Mary (1585 ), Rome, San Silvestro al Quirinale
  • Crocefissione ( 1592), Rome, Santa Maria in Vallicella
  • Pietà ( 1591 ), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Ritratto del Cardinale Ricci, London, National Gallery
  • Sacra famiglia, Galleria Borghese, Rome
  • Pio V, Rome, Galleria Colonna
  • Famiglia di Alfonso Gonzaga, Rome, Galleria Colonna
  • Portrait of Jacopo Boncompagni (again, after a few detours, since 1989, in private collection), painted in 1574

Portrait of Maria de ' Medici

Lamentation of Christ ( 1593)

Portrait of Julius III.

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