Baldassarre Franceschini Il Volterrano - Jean Luc Baroni
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tav. I <strong>Volterrano</strong>, Self-portrait, 1663-1665 circa, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence<br />
but recently identified as dating from 1662; a Holy<br />
Family with St. Elizabeth and St. John The Baptist also<br />
known only from an engraved derivation (around 1662-<br />
1665); the spectacular portrait of Panbollito playing the<br />
Lute with a Moorish servant (1662); the Rest on the<br />
Flight into Egypt (1662-1664) now belonging to the<br />
Gerini family and an Allegory of Fame frescoed on the<br />
ceiling of a room in the wing known as della Muletta<br />
in the Pitti Palace (1659). Again, no less significant,<br />
in these first years of the seventh decade of the 17 th<br />
century, is the canvas with the Allegory of Louis XIV in<br />
Glory, commissioned in 1664 by Luigi Strozzi for the<br />
Sun King.<br />
Fama affrescata nel soffitto di una stanza del quartiere<br />
detto ‘della Muletta’ a Pitti (1659). Non meno significativa,<br />
in questi primi anni del settimo decennio del Seicento,<br />
la commissione di una tela con l’Allegoria della<br />
gloria di Luigi XIV ordinata nel 1664 da Luigi Strozzi per<br />
conto del Re Sole.<br />
Agli anni sessanta del secolo si datano inoltre l’Autoritratto<br />
della Galleria degli Uffizi (tav. I); la grande<br />
pala, oggi malconcia, sull’altare Incontri in Sant’Egidio<br />
a Firenze (1664-1665); la solenne Andata al calvario<br />
per la famiglia Gerini (1666); le due tele laterali della<br />
cappella Gigli in San Vigilio a Siena (1666-1670);<br />
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