Original artwork description:

Imaginary portrait of the Italian scholar and playwright Girolamo Gigli (1660 - 1722), set against the backdrop of a view of the Duomo in his native Siena. The painting, in a figurative expressionist style, speaks of a whimsical, nonconformist character who brought together all the worst and all the best of the pure-blooded Sienese: although factitious, stubborn and irascible, he was full of imagination and spontaneity, ready above all to defend his ideals at any cost. Professor of Tuscan Literature at the Universities of Pavia and Siena, he soon gained renown by composing oratorios, cantatas and sacred and profane dramas for music collected in Dramatic Poems and Opere nuove (Venice 1700).

Materials used:

Oil colors on canvas

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