Van Dyck in Sicily 1624-1625. Painting and the Plague

Cinisello Balsamo, 2012, Silvana. Cm. 28×24, pp. 119, ill. a colori n.t., br. In the Spring of 1624, the twenty-five-year-old Anthony van Dyck boarded a ship in the harbour of Genoa. He had lived in Italy already for almost three years, having moved from Antwerp. The boat was to carry the young Flemish painter along the Tyrrhenian coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The destination was Palermo, capital of Sicily, governed at the time by a Spanish viceroy, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy. Until recently, it was believed that Van Dyck had managed to escape from Sicily only a few months after, in 1624. However, recent research has revealed that the painter stayed in Palermo longer than expected, until the autumn of 1625: during the year and a half of his residence in Palermo, Van Dyck lived through one of the most violent epidemics of seventeenth-century Italy. This exhibition catalogue brings together the threads of the researches of many scholars in trying to give a complete, as much as possibl

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