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Source (New York, N.Y.), 2007, Vol.26 (2), p.32-37
Ort / Verlag
Ars Brevis Foundation
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Suggests that despite his great success and renown as a portraitist, Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) has been underestimated by modern observers in terms of the semantic complexity of his work. Discusses one of his most politically-charged images, the double portrait of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II and his brother Leopold, grand duke of Tuscany, painted on the occasion of their visit to Rome in 1769. Attempts to show how Batoni manipulated the painting's apparently straightforward iconography to convey the sitters' special relationship to Roman authority, and how the strategem was undone when then image was transplanted to Vienna, and seen within an altered political context.