album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1871,0812.1086
- Description
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Caricature of Father Santini; head and shoulders, seen in profile, facing left; wearing a skull-cap; 1742
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1742
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 108 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See curatorial comment for 1871,0812.818.
The inscription, dated 25 July 1742, states that Father Santini was a cleric at the church of the Maddalena and that he distinguished himself in many disciplines, such as Maths, Architecture, Clock manufacturing, ‘torni figurati’ and that he was in charge of the waterworks nearby Verona. The ‘torni figurati’ could refer both to illuminated globes (Ghezzi draws him with one in a full-length caricature, see below), or to a specific type of lathing within clock manufacturing.
A related full-length caricature also dated 1742 is in the Vatican Library, Codice Ottoboniano Latino 3118, c. 43 (see Maria Cristina Dorati da Empoli, 'Pier Leone Ghezzi. Un protagonista del Settecento romano', Rome 2008, p. 285 and see digi.vatlib.it). There Ghezzi states he was a famous mathematician. He is also mentioned in the same Codice Ottoboniano Latino 3118, on c. 190 (Dorati da Empoli cit., p. 310). The church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome was the seat of the Ministers to the Sick, clerics regular (also called Camillians).
Not to be confused with other unrelated portraits, after portrait prints of the earlier mathematician Vincenzo Santini (died 1726), also in the Vatican Library, Codice Ottoboniano Latino 3114, c. 2 and 3115, c. 160 (Dorati da Empoli cit., pp. 193-94 and 221).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0812.1086