Giovanni Coli (1636 - 1681), Filippo Gherardi (1643- 1704)

Giovanni Coli (San Quirico, 1636 - Lucca, 1681), Filippo Gherardi (Lucca, 1643- 1704)

Assumption of the Virgin

Oil on canvas, cm 95 x 70

With frame cm 111 x 85

The canvas in question is attributable to the strong stylistic and formal consonances not to a single artist but to two painters, working together for almost all his life: Filippo Gherardi and Giovanni Coli.

Filippo Gherardi took his first steps in the world of art in Lucca in his father’s workshop, where he was also Giovanni Coli with whom he formed a strong friendship and an artistic association destined to last until the death of Coli; Consequently, it is difficult to independently reconstruct the biographical and professional path of the two painters that Pellegrino Orlandi described with these words: "They did not deign that the one worked in the same head, or cloth, or figure of the other".

Later the two entered the Roman workshop of Pietro da Cortona to update themselves on the characters of the new Baroque painting. They were also in Venice where they studied and performed some copies of the works of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. In the lagoon they also received important commissions such as the realization of a large canvas "Madonna in gloria"today lost, for the church of the Italian colony in Lisbon and the assignment for the vaults of the Benedictine monastery of S. Giorgio Maggiore with the realization of five paintings related to the theme of divine wisdom. The canvases, which combine the magisterium of Cortonesco and the great scenography of Veronese,  will have great importance for the Venetian figurative culture of the second '600. After the Venetian experience there were commissions to the two who are active in Lucca for the Church of San Tommaso in Pelleria and in particular in Rome, where in 1675 members of the Academy of St. Luke are elected. Among the Roman works there are three canvases for the ceiling of the church of Santa Croce and San Bonaventura and the frescoes for the gallery of Palazzo Colonna.

The draft under consideration could refer to a commission lost or never realized. It emphasizes the liveliness and the deep movement inherent in the canvas. The composition is rich but well calibrated, the brushwork fresh, rapid and dense vibration. The figures, as typical of the sketches, lengthen and parade with great grace and elegance. Although the formation under Pietro da Cortona is important in all of their works, it must be pointed out that the influence of Venetian painting has allowed the two artists not to accentuate the swollen performance of some of his compositions.

Their works are kept in private collections at Palazzo Corsini in Rome, the Gemaldegalerie in Dresden, the County Museum in Los Angeles or the Civic Museum in Treviso.

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