Fabrizio Chiari

"Fabritius Clarus" redirects here. Not to be confused with Carel Fabritius (1622–1654), a Dutch painter.

Venus and Mercury with Children

Original by Nicolas Poussin	Etching by Fabrizio Chiari

Fabrizio Chiari (c.1615–1695^{[1][2][n 1]}) was an Italian painter and engraver who spent his entire life in Rome.^[1]

Chiari's early etchings from Nicolas Poussin paintings are described by Michael Bryan as "executed in a scratchy but masterly style";^[4] among them are:^[1][4]

• Mars and Venus, in a landscape, signed "Fabritius Clarus" 1635.
• Venus and Mercury with Children, signed "Chlarus" 1636
• Venus and Adonis, signed "Nicolaus Pussinus"; This etching has been erroneously attributed to Poussin.

Chiari was enrolled in the Accademia di San Luca from 1635.^[1] In San Martino ai Monti in the 1640s he painted the altarpiece, St Martin Dividing his Cloak with the Beggar, and a fresco, The Baptism of Christ, which was overpainted in the 18th century by Antonio Cavallucci.^[5] To mark the 1658 canonization of Thomas of Villanova, he painted St. Thomas of Villanova Distributing Alms for Santa Maria del Popolo.^[6] His Assumption of the Virgin and Death of St Anne, commissioned in 1654 for the chapel of Regina Coeli convent, were misplaced when it became a prison in 1880;^[1][7] the latter turned up in 2012 and in 2019 sold for $30,000 at Sotheby's.^[1][8] Others of Chiari's works are no longer known, including church paintings mentioned by Filippo Titi and drawings listed by Nicola Pio [Wikidata].^[1] In 1675 Chiari decorated the Sala degli Specchi in the Palazzo Altieri, including a ceiling fresco, The Chariot of Apollo,^{[9][n 2]} in which the cornices, unusually, depict the four ages of man rather than the four seasons.^[10]

Footnotes

1. Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi gives 1621 as his birth year.^[3]
2. Not to be confused with the ceiling fresco of the same name in the Palazzo Barberini by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari.^[9]

References

1. Fattorosi Barnaba, Nicoletta (1980). "CHIARI, Fabrizio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 24.
2. "Fabrizio Chiari (c. 1615-95) - An allegory in honour of Ferdinand, King of Hungary". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 12 March 2021.; Mossakowski, Stanisław (2009). "Gli anni romani di Giovanni Battista Gisleni". Biuletyn Historii Sztuki. 71 (1–2): 40. doi:10.11588/artdok.00004346.
3. Orlandi, Pellegrino Antonio; Guarienti, Pietro (1763). Abecedario Pittorico (in Italian) (corrected and enlarged ed.). Naples. p. 143.
4. Bryan, Michael (1816). "Chiari, Fabrizzio". A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. Vol. 1. London: Carpenter. p. 272.
5. Sutherland, Ann B. (1964). "The Decoration of San Martino ai Monti — I". The Burlington Magazine. 106 (731): 62, 69. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 874182.
6. Colantuoni, Raffaele (1899). La chiesa di S. Maria del Popolo negli otto secoli dalla prima sua fondazione, 1099-1899: storia e arte (in Italian). RomE: Desclée, Lefebvre. p. 115.
7. "Lot 165: Fabrizio Chiari The Death of St Anne". Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture. Sotheby's. 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
8. "Fabrizio Chiari The Death of St Anne". LotSearch. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
9. De Iulis, Enrico (2019). "La via dell'ambrosia : lettura iconologica dell'affresco di Guido Reni nel Casino Rospigliosi Pallavicini". Ricche Minere. 6 (11): 53 (fig 5), 55 (fig 8), 56. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
10. Montagu, Jennifer (1978). "Bellori, Maratti and the Palazzo Altieri". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 41: 337 fn.12. doi:10.2307/750881. ISSN 0075-4390. JSTOR 750881.

Further reading

• Strinati, Claudio (2019). "Su Fabrizio Chiari". In Baldassarri, Francesca; Confalone, Maia (eds.). Gli amici per Nicola Spinosa (in Italian). Rome: Ugo Bozzi. pp. 110–115. ISBN 978-88-7003-061-7.