Angelica and Medoro

GIUSEPPE BEZZUOLI

GIUSEPPE BEZZUOLI
(Florence 1784-1855)

A man and a woman barely naked in a loving manner
Around 1819
black pencil, white lead, on paper, 9.44 x 15.74 in
On the front, at the bottom on the left, mark of the family Parri.

The drawing is a study for a painting representing “The loves of Angelica and Medoro”, more precisely the moment when the lovers are carving their names as a testify of their feeling, inspired by the octave 36 from the 19th canto of the “Orlando Furioso” (The Frenzy of Orlando). […]

In the 1820 Bezzuoli made the decoration of a room at the ground floor of the palace of the Marquis Orazio Emilio Pucci, illustrating three moments of the love story of Angelica and Medor0 […] the position of the two is mostly the same as in the drawing so that we can surely deduce it is the preparatory drawing of that important work […].

Excerpt of the expertise by doc. Silvestra Bietoletti

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