The Provincial Roman Synod of 1725, Basilica of St. John Lateran

Artist Pier Leone Ghezzi b. 1674, Rome; d. 1755, Rome

Datecirca 1725

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions95 7/8 x 122 1/2 in. (243.5 x 311.1 cm)
Frame: 109 1/4 x 135 1/2 in. (277.5 x 344.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.157

On View

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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 Odazzi painting (52.9.156) in "some obscure place on the New York Bowery" (according to Carl Hamilton-letter to Bier 3/8/1963);] Julius Weitzner, New York; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesLeoni Pascoli, Vite de’ pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni..., (Rome, 1736), Vol. 2, 206.

Francesco Moücke, Museo fiorentino...Serie di ritratti degli eccelenti pittori dipinti di proprio mano che esistono nell’Imperial Galleria di Firenze colle vite in compendio de’ medesimi descritte da Francesco Moücke, 4 vols. (Florence, 1752–62), Vol. 4 (1762), 219–28 (223).

Catalogue des objets d’art et e’ameublement garnissant le gran appartement au premier étage du palais du prince Orsini, Rome. Le vente aux enchéres aura lieu au Palais Orsini, a Monte Savello sous la direction de M. le Chev. G. Sangiorgi. Exposition le 7 et 9 mars 1896/Publique le 10 et 11 mars 1896; vente du 12 au 23 mars, à deux heures et un quart (Rome: Galerie Sangiorgi, Palais Borghese, Vle année, no. 65, 1896) p. 8, lot 25.

Ulrich Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon Der Bildenden Kunstler (Leipzig: Verlag Von E. A. Seeman, XIII, 1920), 540 (mentions it as lost).

Art News (April 1956), 37, illus.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 187, illus. (b-w).

Helen Comstock, “Connoisseur in America,” Connoisseur 142 (December 1958), 202.

Anthony M. Clark, “Pier Leone Ghezzi’s Portraits,” Paragone 14, no. 165 (1963), 18, illus. pl. 14.

Gisela Rubsamen, The Orsini Inventories (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1980), 123, 129.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 206, detail (b-w) 207.

Edgar Peters Bowron, “Due atti del Giubileo in S. Giovanni in Laterno,” in Roma 1300-1875: La citta degli anni santi Atlante, by Marcello Fagiolo and Maria Luisa Madonna (Rome: Arnoldo Mondadore Editore, 1985), 308.

Stella Rudolf, La pittura del ‘700 a Roma (Milan, 1983), no. 288.

Angela Negro, “I guibelei del settecento: note introdutive alla produzione artistica,” in Roma 1300–1875: L’arte degli anni santi (exhibition catalogue), Marcello Fagiolo and Maria Luisa Madonna, eds. (Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1984).

Edgar Peters Bowron, “Due atti del Giugileo in S. Giovanni in Laterno,” in, Roma 1300–1875: La citta degli anni santi Atlante, Marcello Fagiolo and Maria Luisa Madonna, eds. (exhibition catalogue) (Rome: Arnoldo Mondadori Editori, 1985), 308–309.

Anna Lo Bianca, Pier Leone Ghezzi pittore (Palermo: ILA. Palma, 1985), 116–117.

Jennifer Montagu, Roman Baroque Sculpture: the Industry of Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 47, illus. fig. 52.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 194.

Anna Lo Bianco, “Il Concilio lateranense de Pier Leone Ghezzi,” In Arte A Roma, Maurizio Calvesi, ed. (Rome: Rizzoli, 1999), 190–197, illus. (color) 192–93, details (color) 190, 194.

Anna Lo Bianco, Settecento alla moda (Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1999), 19–20.

Christopher M. S. Johns, "The Entrepôt of Europe: Rome in the Eighteenth Century," in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, eds. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000), 24, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, "Painters and Painting in Settecento Rome," in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, eds. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000), 369.

Anna Lo Bianco, “Pier Leone Ghezzi,” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 53 (Rome: Treccani, 2000). http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pier-leone-ghezzi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

Maria Cristina Dorati da Empoli, Pier Leone Ghezzi: Un protagonist del Settecento romano (Rome: Gangemi, 2008), 15, 42 (Catalogo delle opera).

Nigel Llewellyn, “The Portrayal of Absolutism,” in Baroque: Style in the Age of Magnificence, 1620–1800 (exhibition catalogue), Michael Snodin and Nigel Llewellyn, eds. (London: V & A Publishing, 2009) briefly discussed 39–40, illus. (color) 41, fig. 1.32 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Bernward Schmidt, Das Concilio Romano 1725, (Münster: Rhema-Verlag, 2012), illus. (color), fig. 1 (following p. 128).

Raffaella Bentivoglio Ravasio, “Ghezzi.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed April 1, 2015, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T031917

Lyle Humphrey, “Depicting the Papacy in Late Baroque Rome,” blog post on NCMA blog Untitled, November 17, 2014, http://ncartmuseum.org/blog/view/http_ncartmuseum.org_untitled_2014_11_depicting-the-papacy-in-late-baroque-

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