Il ritratto funebre di Gaston de Foix in primo Ottocento tra tutela, studio e collezionismo
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The funeral portrait of Gaston de Foix in the early 19th Century:
preservation, study and collecting
VITO ZANI
A number of documents from Milan’s State Archive and Biblioteca
Ambrosiana reveal two previously unknown historical events connected
with the funeral portrait of Gaston de Foix, sculpted by Agostino Busti,
a.k.a. Bambaia, between 1517 and 1521 for the unfinished monument of
the renown French military commander, projected for the church of
Santa Marta in Milan. If the dispersion of various parts of the monument
– which was never assembled – had already started by the end of the
16th Century, the church still kept the portrait at the beginning of the
19th Century, before if was transferred to the Brera Academy in 1806 and
consequently moved to its present location, the Museo d’Arte Antica at
Castello Sforzesco. Thanks to the retrieved documents, we now come to
know that a relocation of the artwork to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana was
attempted in 1801, and that very few years later Count Alberico di
Belgioioso d’Este tried to acquire it for his prominent collection.
The article also presents an extremely important late-17th-early-18th-
Century drawing retrieved by Francesco Repishti at the Bibliothèque
Nationale in Paris, portraying the arrangement of the funeral monument
in the cloisters of the convent annexed to Santa Marta, commissioned by
the nuns in 1674. Finally, some critical insight is given about two
Renaissance sculptures formerly included in the Belgioioso collection.
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