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Sigism<strong>on</strong>do Coccapani<br />

Florence 1585 – 1643<br />

12<br />

La Lapidati<strong>on</strong> <strong>de</strong> saint Étienne<br />

Plume et encre brune, lavis gris-bleu, aquarelle.<br />

294 x 235 mm (11 9 /16 x 9 1 /4 in.)<br />

Provenance<br />

Famille Coccapani, sa marque <strong>de</strong>ux fois (Lugt 2729) 1 ; Sotheby’s, New York, 30 janvier 2019, lot 34.<br />

Bibliographie<br />

M. Chapell, « Proposals for Coccapani », Paradigma, 1990, n° 9, p. 190, fig. 106, comme attribué à<br />

Coccapani ; E. Acanfora, Sigism<strong>on</strong>do Coccapani. Ricomposizi<strong>on</strong>e <strong>de</strong>l catalogo, Florence, Aska, 2017, p.<br />

193-194, D 76 (menti<strong>on</strong>né), p. 212, D143, illustré p. 227, planche 75.<br />

Fils d’un père orfèvre originaire <strong>de</strong> Carpi, Sigism<strong>on</strong>do<br />

Coccapani reçut une éducati<strong>on</strong> poussée,<br />

notamment en matière <strong>de</strong> mathématiques et <strong>de</strong><br />

littérature. Sa vie nous est rapportée par le témoignage<br />

<strong>de</strong> Filippo Baldinucci 1 (1625-1697) qui<br />

le c<strong>on</strong>nut pers<strong>on</strong>nellement et qui explique que,<br />

n’éprouvant nullement l’envie <strong>de</strong> reprendre l’atelier<br />

<strong>de</strong> s<strong>on</strong> père, Coccapani partit étudier la peinture<br />

chez Ludovico Cardi, dit le Cigoli, d<strong>on</strong>t il <strong>de</strong>vint<br />

l’un <strong>de</strong>s meilleurs élèves. Il le suivit à Rome<br />

en 1610 pour l’assister dans la décorati<strong>on</strong> <strong>de</strong> la<br />

chapelle Pauline <strong>de</strong> la basilique Sainte-Marie-Majeure.<br />

En 1611-1612, grâce à ses compétences<br />

scientifiques, il effectua <strong>de</strong>s observati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>sur</str<strong>on</strong>g> les<br />

taches solaires pour Galilée 2 , puis rentra à Florence.<br />

Parmi ses œuvres florentines, Saint Ant<strong>on</strong>in<br />

faisant d<strong>on</strong>ner à un pauvre homme l’argent volé<br />

par <strong>de</strong>ux faux aveugles peint à fresque dans une<br />

lunette du cloître du couvent <strong>de</strong> San Marco <strong>de</strong> Florence<br />

et Michel Ange cour<strong>on</strong>né par les arts (1615-<br />

1617) à la Casa Bu<strong>on</strong>arroti s<strong>on</strong>t les plus fameuses<br />

et lui valurent <strong>de</strong> travailler pour les Médicis, pour<br />

lesquels il exécuta, vers 1622-1623, dans le casino<br />

médicéen <strong>de</strong> San Marco, L’Architecture présente à<br />

Cosimo II un projet architect<strong>on</strong>ique. Il fournit également<br />

<strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong>ssins pour <strong>de</strong>s retables du Dôme <strong>de</strong><br />

Sienne. L’église <strong>de</strong>s Théatins Saints-Michel-et-Gaétan<br />

c<strong>on</strong>tient <strong>de</strong>s décors <strong>de</strong> sa main <str<strong>on</strong>g>sur</str<strong>on</strong>g> la voûte,<br />

la lunette <strong>de</strong> l’autel et les <strong>de</strong>ux lunettes latérales<br />

<strong>de</strong> la chapelle Martelli, réalisés vers 1642. L<strong>on</strong>gtemps<br />

c<strong>on</strong>f<strong>on</strong>dues avec les œuvres d’Alessandro<br />

Rosi, celles <strong>de</strong> Coccapani <strong>on</strong>t une préciosité, une<br />

sentimentalité voire une étrangeté bien à lui, différentes<br />

<strong>de</strong> l’atmosphère « negromantica 3 » ou « zingaresca<br />

4 » qu’<strong>on</strong> lui a souvent prêtée et qui qualifie<br />

mieux celles <strong>de</strong> Rosi.<br />

The s<strong>on</strong> of a goldsmith from Carpi, Sigism<strong>on</strong>do<br />

Coccapani received an advanced educati<strong>on</strong>,<br />

especially in mathematics and literature. His life<br />

was recor<strong>de</strong>d by Filippo Baldinucci 1 (1625 – 1697)<br />

who knew him pers<strong>on</strong>ally and who explains that,<br />

not feeling any <strong>de</strong>sire to take over his father’s<br />

workshop, Coccapani left to study painting with<br />

Ludovico Cardi, called Cigoli, and became <strong>on</strong>e of<br />

his best pupils. He followed his master to Rome in<br />

1610 to assist him in the <strong>de</strong>corati<strong>on</strong> of the Cappella<br />

Paolina of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. In<br />

1611-1612, thanks to his scientific skills, he ma<strong>de</strong><br />

observati<strong>on</strong>s oh the spots <strong>on</strong> the sun’s <str<strong>on</strong>g>sur</str<strong>on</strong>g>face<br />

for Galileo, 2 then returned to Florence where he<br />

received many commissi<strong>on</strong>s. Am<strong>on</strong>g his Florentine<br />

works, Saint Ant<strong>on</strong>in Having M<strong>on</strong>ey Stolen by Two<br />

Men Pretending to be Blind be Given to a Poor Man,<br />

a fresco in a lunette of the cloister of the c<strong>on</strong>vent of<br />

San Marco in Florence and Michelangelo Crowned<br />

by the Arts (1615-1617) in the Casa Bu<strong>on</strong>arotti are<br />

the most famous and led to him working for the<br />

Medici for whom he created, around 1622-1623,<br />

Architecture Presenting an Architect<strong>on</strong>ic Project to<br />

Cosimo II in the Medici casino of San Marco. He<br />

also provi<strong>de</strong>d drawings for altarpieces in the duomo<br />

of Siena. The Theatin church of Saints Michele and<br />

Gaetano c<strong>on</strong>tains <strong>de</strong>corati<strong>on</strong>s by him <strong>on</strong> the vault,<br />

the lunette of the altar, and two si<strong>de</strong> lunettes of the<br />

Martelli chapel, created around 1642.<br />

C<strong>on</strong>fused for a l<strong>on</strong>g time with the works of Alessandro<br />

Rosi, those by Coccapani have a preciousness,<br />

a sentimentality and sometimes a strangeness<br />

that are specific to him and are different to the<br />

“negromantica” 3 or “zingaresca” 4 atmospheres that<br />

are often i<strong>de</strong>ntified with him and which are better<br />

suited to <strong>de</strong>scribe those of Rosi.<br />

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