Benedict XIII in Procession at the Basilica of St. John Lateran on 28 April 1726

Artist Giovanni Odazzi Italian, 1663–1731

Datecirca 1726

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions96 1/8 x 122 5/8 in. (244.2 x 311.5 cm)
Frame: 109 1/2 x 135 3/4 in. (278.1 x 344.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.156

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ProvenanceCommissioned by Monsignor (later cardinal) Nicolò Maria Lercari (1675-1757); Arcivescovo di Nazianzo; Giovanni e Paolo, 1726; Pietro in Vincoli, 1743 marzo 11.]; Principe Filippo Bernualdo Orsini (1742-1824), Palazzo Savelli-Orsini, Rome, 1794; Don Domenico Orsini (Napoli 23-11-1790 + Roma 1874, Duke of Gravina, Palazzo Savelli-Orsini, Rome, 1817; [Found, together with Ghezzi painting (52.9.157) in "some obscure place on the New York Bowery" (according to Carl Hamilton-letter to Bier 3/8/1963);] with Julius Weitzner, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesL. Pascoli, Vite de' Pittori Moderni, Vol. 2 (1736), 394.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 186, illus. (b-w).

Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), illus. 37 (as attributed to Ghezzi).

Helen Comstock, "Connoisseur in America," The Connoisseur 142, no. 573 (December 1958), 202, illus. 203 (as attributed to Ghezzi).

Anthony Clark, "Pierleone Ghezzi's Portraits," Paragone 165 (____ 1963), 18, as attributed to Ghezzi].

Michele Trimarchi, Giovanni Odazzi Pittore Romano (1663-1731) (Rome, 1979), no. 83.

Gisela Rubsamen, The Orsini Inventories (Malibu, 1980), 123 (1794 inv?), 129 (1817 inv?).

Edgar Peters Bowron, "Due Atti del Giubileo in S. Giovanni in Laterano," in Roma 1300-1875: La città degli anni Atlante (exhibition catalogue) (Rome: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1985), 308-09, no. A.XVI.2(m).

Anna Lo Bianco, "Il Concilio lateranense de Pier Leone Ghezzi," in Arte A Roma, Maurizio Calvesi, ed. (Rome: Rizzoli, 1999), 195-197, illus. (color) 196.

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