Viviano Codazzi - ROME A CAPRICCIO OF THE EXTERIOR OF AN ELABORATE PALACE WITH SAINT PETER HEALING THE LAME; A CAPRICCIO OF THE INTERNAL COURTYARD OF A RUINED PALACE WITH THE MIRACLE OF SAINT PAUL

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Viviano Codazzi
BERGAMO 1604 - 1670 ROME
A CAPRICCIO OF THE EXTERIOR OF AN ELABORATE PALACE WITH SAINT PETER HEALING THE LAME; A CAPRICCIO OF THE INTERNAL COURTYARD OF A RUINED PALACE WITH THE MIRACLE OF SAINT PAUL 
Quantity: 2
a pair, both oil on canvas
each: 128 by 151 cm.; 50 3/8 by 59 1/2 in. 

This lot is accompanied by a copy of an expertise from Prof. Nicola Spinosa. Prof. Spinosa believes the figures to be attributable to Domenico Gargiulo, called Micco Spadaro (1609-75). Gargiulo provided the staffage for Codazzi's elaborate architectural fantasies on numerous occasions; see, for example, in another capriccio with Saint Peter healing the lame in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples (see D.R. Marshall, Viviano and Niccolò Codazzi, Rome 1993, pp. 132-3, cat. no. VC41, reproduced). On account of the proximity of Gargiulo's figures to those of the Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Bamboccianti and to Aniello Falcone, Spinosa has dated this pair of capricci to no later than 1640, and most likely to the period 1635-40 when Gargiulo was most heavily influenced by these artists.

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