Thursday, April 18, 2019

Cosimo Ulivelli (1625-1704) - Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Miracles of the Madonna dell' Annunziata
(Bernardini Sardi Militis Lethalia Vulnera Medetur)
1671
fresco
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Miracles of the Madonna dell' Annunziata
(Forestus Pistoriensis Pugione Minime Laeditur)
1671
fresco
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Miracles of the Madonna dell' Annunziata
(Franciscus Hispanus Innocens Avinculis Liberatur)
1671
fresco
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Miracles of the Madonna dell' Annunziata
(Hieronymus Grimaldi A Mauris Per Mare Tutus)
1671
fresco
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Miracles of the Madonna dell' Annunziata
(Innocentio PP. VIII Diuturnos Dolores Toilit)
1671
fresco
Basilica della Santissima Annunziata, Florence

"The Florentine Baroque artist Cosimo Ulivelli was taught by Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano.  Ulivelli seems to have enjoyed a considerable reputation during his long life, and decorated vaults and ceiling which can still be seen in many Florentine churches and palazzi.  Together with Jacopo Chiavistelli and Angelo Gori, Ulivelli frescoed the bays of the third corridor of the Uffizi Gallery with a pictorial cycle designed to celebrate illustrious Florentine men and institutions.  The artist is also known to have painted cartoons for tapestries.  Throughout his work, we see the same Cortonesque air, . . . an influence that Ulivelli received via his master, Volterrano."

– from biographical notes published by Foolscap Fine Art (Netherlands)

Cosimo Ulivelli
Works of Mercy - Clothing the Naked
before 1704
fresco
Oratorio dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Works of Mercy - Feeding the Hungry
before 1704
fresco
Oratorio dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Works of Mercy - Giving Drink to the Thirsty
before 1704
fresco
Oratorio dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Works of Mercy - Tending the Wounded
before 1704
fresco
Oratorio dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Works of Mercy - Burying the Dead
before 1704
fresco
Oratorio dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Works of Mercy - Pious Woman at the Sepulchre of Christ
before 1704
fresco
Oratorio dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Florence

attributed to Cosimo Ulivelli
Blessed Columba of Rieti
before 1704
oil on canvas
Museo di San Marco, Florence

Cosimo Ulivelli
Truth removing Blinders from the Eyes of Ignorance
before 1704
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cosimo Ulivelli
Death of Archimedes
before 1704
drawing
British Museum