From Milan to Madrid. The fortune of Camillo and Giulio Cesare Procaccini in Spanish collecting in the early 17th century, this is the title of the meeting presented this evening at 7 p.m. by the Centro Italiano de Cultura, which will be presented by the director Marialuisa Pappalardo, with the participation of Odette D’Albo, curator of the art collections of CREDEM, and David García Cueto, head of the Department of Italian and French Painting until 1800 at the Prado Museum and professor of Art History at the University of Granada. Event in Italian without simultaneous translation.
The brothers Camillo (1561-1629) and Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574-1625) were two of the most prominent painters active in Milan in the early 17th century, when Lombardy was under Spanish control. The conference will present studies on the relationship between the two artists and some important Spanish patrons and collectors of the early 17th century, such as the governor of Milan, Pedro de Toledo Osorio, V Marquis of Villafranca del Bierzo (1557-1627); Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, Duke of Feria (1587-1634), and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585- 1635), who was in charge for 15 years, from 1615 to 1629.
