Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Giovanni Antonio Burrini (1656-1727) - Extrovert in Bologna

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Endymion
ca. 1680-90
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Diana and Endymion
ca. 1680-90
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Study of Heads
1679
drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Joseph interpreting Dreams in Prison
ca. 1680-90
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Hercules rescuing Dejaneira
from the Centaur Nessus

before 1727
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Orpheus and Eurydice
ca. 1695-1705
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Two Women at a Balustrade
ca. 1700
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Susanna and the Elders
1686
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Adoration of the Magi
before 1727
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
The Nativity
before 1727
oil on canvas
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Bamberg

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Head of a Man
before 1727
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

attributed to Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Saints interceding for Plague Victims
before 1727
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

attributed to Giovanni Antonio Burrini
St Roch appearing to Plague Victims
ca. 1700
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Landscape with Figures near a Tomb
before 1727
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous Printmaker
Posthumous Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Burrini
1739
etching and engraving
(book illustration)
British Museum

"[Domenico Maria] Canuti had died in 1684, [Carlo] Cignani had gone to Forlì in 1686, and [Lorenzo] Pasinelli died in 1700.  There remained [Giuseppe Maria] Crespi and, next to him, Giovan Antonio Burrini (1656-1727), who had studied with both Canuti and Pasinelli and became Bologna's representative of an extrovert Late Baroque style; [Giampietro] Zanotti called him 'il nostro Cortona e il nostro Giordano'."  

– Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 by Rudolf Wittkower (1958), revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu for Yale University Press (1999)