Vincenzo Vela’s Il Venditore di Schiave

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dc.title	Vincenzo Vela’s Il Venditore di Schiave. From Pietro Mazzola’s Collection in Breria Pinacoteca
dc.contributor.author	Ghibaudi Cecilia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/mdccc-1800/2015/4/il-venditore-di-schiave-di-vincenzo-vela/
dc.description.abstract	A marble representing a Merchant of Female Slaves is a work of art of Vincenzo Vela, but only its plaster cast at the Vela Museum in Ligornetto (Switzerland) was known to the historiography of the artist. It was commissioned by the doctor Pietro Mazzola, nephew of the painter Giuseppe. A date at around 1844-1846 can be suggested on the basis of a comparison with the coeval production of the sculptor (Bishop Luvini, 1844, and The Morning Prayer, 1846) and with the works of Francesco Hayez: the Penitents Maria Magdalena, Melancholic Thoughts, the drawings and the paintings on Orientalist subjects like the harem and the odalisques.
dc.relation.ispartof	MDCCC 1800
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| July 2015
dc.issued	2015-07-01
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dc.identifier.eissn	2280-8841
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2280-8841/540
dc.peer-review	yes

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Vincenzo Vela’s Il Venditore di Schiave

From Pietro Mazzola’s Collection in Breria Pinacoteca

Cecilia Ghibaudi

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A marble representing a Merchant of Female Slaves is a work of art of Vincenzo Vela, but only its plaster cast at the Vela Museum in Ligornetto (Switzerland) was known to the historiography of the artist. It was commissioned by the doctor Pietro Mazzola, nephew of the painter Giuseppe. A date at around 1844-1846 can be suggested on the basis of a comparison with the coeval production of the sculptor (Bishop Luvini, 1844, and The Morning Prayer, 1846) and with the works of Francesco Hayez: the Penitents Maria Magdalena, Melancholic Thoughts, the drawings and the paintings on Orientalist subjects like the harem and the odalisques.

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