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Portrayts' Gallery (Along The Staircases) - Pinacoteca Civica di Ripatransone



The Gallery of Portraits is along the staircase that rises from the ground to the second floor.


Here, there are collected a number of paintings, all made on oil on canvas, dating from the seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century, depicting the characters related to the history of Ripatransone.

The series opens with the large canvas depicting the mathematical Ripano Tarquinio Boccabianca 1609-1661), presented in a grandiose interior, covered with the academic gown, and a  compass in his hand, this portrait is a remarkable example of seventeenth-century painting.

The most famous personage is Ascanio Condivi, the first biographer of Michelangelo.
He is dressed with a official black dress with a white sketch of a sculpture.



Other Famous Personages:


  • Giacomo Emidio Condivi (two paintings?)



  • The  Franciscan Francesco Maria, secretary general of minors convent during the seventeenth century



  • The Bishop of Ripatransone Fedele Bufalini 



  • Santoro Pucci, chief of the local Guelph who in the 1442 expelled from the city the troops of Francesco Sforza



  • Giuseppe Castelli (1626-1690), an officer of Alessandro Farnese, who, back home, and then wrote his memoirs



  • Giacomo Emidio Condivi, or Francesco Lucerti, writer, poet and speaker who in 1444 led the embassy to Eugene IV to counter the Sforza, or Francesco Maria Tanursi, prominent lawyer and scholar



  • Thomas Aquinas (XVIII) an Italian Dominican Friar, Doctor of the Church, Philosopher, Theologian, he attempted to synthesize the Aristotelian Philosophy (It takes inspiration from the work of Aristotele)

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