{"id":10003,"date":"2023-08-29T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/?page_id=10003"},"modified":"2023-11-07T12:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T11:29:59","slug":"luca-annibali-antonio-begarelli-a-bologna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/?page_id=10003","title":{"rendered":"Luca Annibali: Antonio Begarelli a Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<p><strong>Estratto dal fascicolo 45 (gennaio-marzo 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Il plasticatore modenese Antonio Begarelli (1499-1565) fu uno dei principali protagonisti della scultura italiana del Cinquecento, nonch\u00e9 tra gli interpreti pi\u00f9 raffinati del raffaellismo in Emilia. Stando a Giorgio Vasari (1568), l&#8217;artista si era attirato anche l&#8217;ammirazione di Michelangelo, che apprezzava in particolare la colorazione bianca applicata dall&#8217;autore alle sue opere in terracotta, a imitazione del marmo. In questa sede si propone di restituire a Begarelli due statuette fittili raffiguranti i Santi\u00a0<em>Vitale<\/em>\u00a0e\u00a0<em>Agricola<\/em>, conservate nell&#8217;omonima chiesa bolognese. L&#8217;attribuzione \u00e8 sostenuta sulla base dello stile, ma trova un ulteriore appoggio nel fatto che furono certamente una commissione delle monache benedettine allora residenti nell&#8217;annesso convento, presso cui infatti le due statuette si trovavano originariamente. La familiarit\u00e0 di Begarelli con la congregazione cassinese \u00e8 ampiamente nota, al punto che a partire dagli anni Trenta la sua attivit\u00e0 fu legata quasi esclusivamente alle richieste dell&#8217;ordine. Per quanto concerne la cronologia, le due terrecotte possono essere datate agli anni quaranta, e permettono quindi di gettare nuova luce sulla scultura a Bologna intorno alla met\u00e0 del Cinquecento.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Antonio Begarelli in Bologna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Modenese artist Antonio Begarelli (1499\u20131565) was one of the leading lights of sixteenth century Italian sculpture. He was also one of the most refined exponents of Raphaelism in Emilia. Giorgio Vasari (1568) writes that the artist had also caught the eye of Michelangelo, who particularly appreciated his technique of imitating marble when applying white colouration to his terracotta works. This paper proposes that two small terracotta statues of\u00a0<em>Saints Vitale<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Agricola<\/em>\u00a0are the work of Begarelli. They are housed in the church of the same name in Bologna. The attribution, based on their style of production, is further backed up by the fact that the works were unquestionably commissioned by the Benedictine nuns. Back then the nuns were lodged in a convent adjoining the church and it was here that the statues were housed. Begarelli\u2019s familiarity with the Cassinese Congregation is well noted. So much so, that from the 1530s onwards he worked almost exclusively at their bidding. As for their date, the two terracotta works can be placed in the 1540s, casting new light on the world of sculpture in Bologna around about the middle of the 16th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estratto dal fascicolo 45 (gennaio-marzo 2020) Il plasticatore modenese Antonio Begarelli (1499-1565) fu uno dei principali protagonisti della scultura italiana del Cinquecento, nonch\u00e9 tra gli interpreti pi\u00f9 raffinati del raffaellismo in Emilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10003","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12533,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10003\/revisions\/12533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}