Massimo pulini caravaggio biography

Pulini, a painter himself as well as an authoritative art historian, told the Guardian about his identification of the painting and the.
Massimo Pulini, a professor at the Bologna Fine Arts Academy, claims that he was one of the first to identify Ecce Homo as a lost Caravaggio.
Massimo Pulini is an Italian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1958.

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Famous art expert finds a masterpiece of 17th century by Italian artist in Kazan

09:00, 20.07.2022

The masterpiece of the painter of the early Baroque era was discovered in Kazan by reputable Italian art historian Massimo Pulini. The art expert attributed the painting “Susanna and the Elders” to Italian artist of the 17th century to Giovanni Giacomo Sementi. Undoubtedly, this landmark event in the world of art will serve as a new tourist magnet for the Tatarstan capital, and acquaintance with the Large Collection of Fine Arts ASG, where the canvas is stored, and other collections of paintings will fill the stay of guests of the city with important cultural content. Thus, despite the difficult geopolitical situation in the world, Russia and, in particular, Tatarstan maintain contacts in the international art criticism sphere. Who knows, perhaps culture will become a new bridge of friendship between countries.

“I think it was written exactly by Sementi”

Massimo Pulini, a well-known expert in the field of Italian painting of the 17th century in Europe, artist, art critic

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Learning about Caravaggio's Paintings: The Definitive Guide for Seniors

Boy with a Basket of Fruit (1593)

Caravaggio moved to Rome at the age of 20 in the summer of 1592 to try his luck in Italy’s capital and artistic centre. Thousands of artists were flocking to Rome to work on commissions, usually art pieces and sculptures for the churches being built. As an unknown young artist without powerful patrons, Caravaggio’s early days were marked by financial struggles and artistic frustration. He worked at the workshop of Giuseppe Cesari, also known as Cavaliere d’Arpino, one of the most-prominent artists in Rome at the time. However, Cesari only hired Caravaggio to paint pictures of ‘flowers and fruit’, which the young artist resented.

Boy with a Basket of Fruit was one of the paintings he finished in Rome, and was among the pieces that remained with Cesari until it was seized by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in 1607. It might have been a ‘demonstration piece’, a way for Caravaggio to prove to Cesari that he could do more.

The model for the boy in the painting was Caravaggio’s f

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Caravaggio

Late XV Century – Early XVI Century

In 2010 Prof. Massimo Pulini, professor at the Academy of Bologna and author of monographs on Guercino and Sassoferrato, was called to treat a small exhibition in the diocesan museum of Pienza. On this occasion he was gifted the guide of the Foundation Museums Sensei, browsing through it, he was attracted by the photo of a portrait of a gentleman kept at the Civic Museum Art Gallery Crociani of Montepulciano.

This painting is described by Laura Martini in the catalog of 2000, she points out how the painting has clear references to Carvaggio's style. Obviously Pulini was not looking for Caravaggio, but his expert eye reacted. Pulini says: "I went to verify on the spot the treatment of the brushstrokes in the chiaroscuro and it seemed unequivocal to me. There is no clear division of light and shade: an enveloping breath illuminates the cheek, ear and neck, almost as if it were reflected in the silk of the shirt.” Thanks to the restoration carried out by Mary Lippi, it was possible to notice the lawyer's toga on the shoulder.