Tarantella at Mergellina

ca. 1750

Filippo Falciatore Italian, active 1718-1768

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Florence, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Tarantella at Mergellina

Artwork Date ca. 1750

Artist Filippo Falciatore

Life Dates active 1718-1768

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 × 40 3/16 inches (76.2 × 102 cm) Framed: 39 3/4 × 50 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (101 × 127.6 × 7.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 80.3

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Provenance

1963, Galleria Canessa (Rome, Italy)

Vittorio de Sica (Rome, Italy)

1980, (Enzo Costantini, Rome, Italy)

1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bottari, S. "Filippo Falciatore." Napoli Nobilissima 3 (1963): pp. 97-102, pp. 100-101, p. 19 (ill.).

Spinosa, N. "La pittura napoletana da Carlo a Ferdinando IV di Borbone." Storia di Napoli 8 (1971): p. 492.

Civiltà del Settecento a Napoli. Exh. cat., Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte. Naples, 1979, vol. 1, pp. 49, 240-241, cat. 120a (ill.).

"European Art" Annual Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): pp. 194-195 (ill.).

The Golden Age Of Naples: Art and Civilization Under the Bourbons, 1734-1805. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago and Detroit Institute of Arts. Chicago and Detroit, 1981, vol. 1, pp. 100-101, cat. 20 (ill.). (20a).

Volpe, C. "Per 'Filipetto' Falciatore." Scritti in onore di Ottavio Morisani. Catania, 1982, pp. 371-378, p. 373.

Spinosa, N. Pittura napoletana del settecento dal Barocco al Rococò. Naples, 1986, pp. 64, 99, 153, cat. no. 226.

Barock in Neapel. Exh. cat., Kunst zur Zeit der österreichischen Vizekönige, Kunsthistorisches Museum und Kunstforum der Bank Austria and Castel Sant'Elmo. Naples and Vienna, 1993, p. 138.

Da Caravaggio a Ceruti: la scena di genere e l'immagine dei pitocchi nella pittura italiana. Exh. cat., Museo di Santa Giulia. Brescia, 1999, pp. 342-343.

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2000, pp. 92-94 (ill.).

Rizzo, V. Lorenzo e Domenico Antonio Vaccaro: apoteosi di un binomio. Naples, 2001, p. 147.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 11, 68-71, cat. no. 22.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 102.

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