Thursday, August 29, 2019

Girolamo Romanino (ca. 1485-ca. 1566) - Frescoes in Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Phaethon driving the Horses of the Sun 
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Musicians
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Musicians
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

"In 1531 and 1532 Romanino had the opportunity to return to work on a major scale as a frescante.  In those years he was engaged at Trento in the decoration for Bishop Bernardo Clesio of the Castel Buonconsiglio, working concurrently with the brothers Dossi (and with the lesser Marcello Fogolino).  Romanino's extensive work in the Clesian palace resurrects the brilliant fluency of touch which he had shown earlier in fresco at Cremona and now, finally – the result of study in particular of Pordenone – his fluency does not merely work in the description that the brush makes of the forms but infuses them essentially.  What Romanino shares with Dosso (who just at this moment was tending towards a Giulian Romanism) is not more than the liberty inspired by the secular subjects of the decoration; he is untouched by the new classicistic accent of his collaborators."

– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)

Girolamo Romanino
The Three Graces
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Tarquin and Lucretia
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Death of Lucretia
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Personification of the Sun
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Personification of the Moon
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Vault Ornaments with Ignudi
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Girolamo Romanino
Ignudo
ca. 1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento