Old Master Paintings

Miriam Di Penta is an Art Historian, Ph.D., and  a  specialist in the Italian Baroque. She graduated at the University of Rome and Courtauld Institute of Art in London; her list of publication includes two books, many scientific essays, and lectures at the most prestigious international institutions.

The paintings selected by the Gallery include prominent names of the Italian Baroque, a subject which falls specifically within the range of Dr. Di Penta’s expertise, but also foreign artists active in Italy from the XVth to the early XXth century: figure paintings from the Caravaggio followers to Mattia Preti and Luca Giordano, including works by Bernardo Cavallino, Corrado Giaquinto, and Francesco Solimena; still-life paintings by Luca Forte, Paolo Porpora and Giuseppe Recco; early landscapes by Agostino Tassi, Filippo Napoletano, but also the Grand Tour grander canvases by J. J. Vernet, Orizzonte and Carlo Bonaviaare only among the few names whose works have been discovered and displayed at Miriam Di Penta Fine Arts. Dr. Di Penta is also interested in the XIX century work of Antonio Mancini and Vincenzo Gemito, on which she has edited a volume in 2017.

Each of the artworks offered by the Gallery is the result of intensive research and a painstaking curatorial process honed by Dr. Di Penta in a constant dialogue with international experts, curators and conservators alike, in order to offer only the rarest and finest quality pieces, presented to the public in prime conditions and ready-to-hang. We exclusively deal in Art-works with absolute artistic significance and guaranteed provenance, intended for the connoisseur, the cultivated collector and the international museum alike.

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