Published 2021-11-01
“…This article contributes to the study of Neapolitan painting in the seventeenth century by discussing the attribution of
two paintings in the storerooms of the Museo del Prado: a Head of a Saint, probably St Peter (P-5402), here attributed to Giuseppe
Di Guido, a robust personality of precocious naturalistic extraction, also sensitive to the lessons of Ribera; and a
Battle traditionally
attributed to Aniello Falcone (P-139), here assigned to Pasquale
Chiesa, a painter of Genoese origin—but with a figurative background
steeped in Neapolitan elements—of which little is known, active in Rome in the mid-seventeenth century. …”
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