Berry-Hill Galleries in conjunction with Robert Simon Fine Art is pleased to present From Palace and Chapel: Important Old Master Paintings. The exhibition will feature more than twenty important paintings dating from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth centuries including several significant discoveries. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue written by Dr. Simon.

On view will be one of the few Old Testament cycles to have survived from 16th Century Venice: a remarkable series of four canvases by Palma Giovane, circa 1580-81, depicting the Story of Moses. Also from the 16th century are two impressive Italian altarpieces, the Annunciation by Siciolante da Sermoneta, and the Visitation by Gabriele Caliari, the son of Veronese. Among the discoveries presented is Abraham Bloemaert's imposing Lot and His Daughters, a signed masterpiece of the artist once in the collection of King Charles II. The earliest work is Raffaellino del Garbo's Madonna and Child, a detached fresco painted in Florence in the first years of the fifteenth century. Other sixteenth century Florentine works include Santi de Tito's Holy Family, Pulzone's Portrait of Maria de 'Medici, and an imposing Portrait of Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici in Armor from the workshop of Agnolo Bronzino.

Notable paintings from the Baroque period include A Bravo by the Caravaggesque master Bartolomeo Manfredi, Jupiter and Mercury by Giovanni Battista Langetti, and works by Pellegrini, Gianantonio Guardi, and Lorenzo Lippi.

The exhibition will also feature two rare paintings by women: a finished oil sketch by Angelika Kauffmann, Aeneas Mourning the Death of Pallas, circa 1786, which relates to a large painting of the same subject commissioned by the Emperor Joseph II, and a portrait of Savonarola attributed to Suor Plautilla Nelli, noted as the first woman artist of Florence.

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