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Il cardinale Federico Borromeo e il pittore Jan Brueghel dei Velluti
Lettere e documenti inediti
This study presents various unpublished letters whose senders or recipients were the cardinal and archbishop of Milan Federico Borromeo, his nephew Count Giovanni Borromeo, the painter Jan Brueghel (Velvet Brueghel) and his son Jan Brueghel the Younger. Some of these missives allow us, also through a comparison with other documents already known, to almost hear the voice of the cardinal himself talking to his favourite Flemish painter, whom he admired so much. Furthermore, published here for the first time are various payments in favour of Jan Brueghel ordered by Cardinal Borromeo and recorded in the account ledgers of the archiepiscopal Curia of Milan. This work discloses also other letters and several unpublished archive papers which allow us to have more precise information not only on some paintings located in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, but also on other institutions of the Ambrosiana itself, such as the Biblioteca, the Collegio dei Dottori and the Accademia del Disegno. A chapter of this study is also dedicated to the problematic relationship between Cardinal Borromeo and Caravaggio with the analysis of some significant, little-known testimonies relating to the Lombard painter.
