SIMONDIO SALIMBENI Lot n° 30

(Siena, 1597 - 1643) Portrait of a man Oil on canvas, 42X35.5 cm Provenance: Milan, Sotheby's, May 29, 2007, lot 47 (as 17th-century Tuscan School) Bibliography: M. Ciampolini, Pittori senesi del Seicento, Siena 2010, vol. II, p. 725, table 388. The painting has been correctly traced to the catalog of the painter Simondio Salimbeni by Marco Ciampolini. The artist, son and pupil of Ventura Salimbeni, was also influenced by Rutilio Manetti from whom he learned Caravaggesque luminism. This more modern naturalistic bent is well grasped when observing the canvas presented here, in which the expressive and celebratory delicacies of the late Sienese Renaissance give way to a more careful emotional introspection and grasp of the physical and moral reality of the effigy.