GIOVANNI SCHIAVONI ‒ PORTRETUL COPIILOR DIN FAMILIILE CALLIMACHI, ROSETTI ȘI CATARGI
GIOVANNI SCHIAVONI – PORTRAIT OF CHILDREN IN THE CALLIMACHI, ROSETTI AND CATARGI FAMILIES

Summary/Abstract: Th e paper refers to a painting unknown so far, assigned to painter Giovanni Schiavoni, preserved in the collection of the Callimachi family of Bucharest. Th is work of art gives us the occasion to appreciate Schiavoni’s manner of painting children, with a special sensitivity, as well as to reassess the painter’s capacity of creating fi ne compositions. Th e painting shows fi ve of Ioan Callimachi’s (17501786) grand-sons and of his second wife, Ruxandra Catargiu. Three of them are Ruxandra Callimachi’s children (of two marriages): Nicolae Catargiu-Callimachi (future diplomat), Gheorghe Rosetti-Roznovanu (future colonel, senator, prefect), and his sister Adela Rosetti-Roznovanu. Th eir cousins Teodor Callimachi (future diplomat) and his sister Smaranda Callimachi, orphans since 1843 also grew in aunt Ruxandra’s house. Th e research is very much based on the study of family history and of genealogy, the result being a documentary fi che for each of the personages represented in the painting.

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