Filippo Frigiotti

Filippo Frigiotti (Rome) - Maddalena penitente H mm 413x270 Sanguigna Expert opinion by Professor Claudio Strinati: "Very rare and very fine work by a notable Roman painter whosebiographical data, however, are very little known and of whom a nucleus of certain and very significant works is preserved that demonstrate his excellencein the Roman artistic environment of the first half of the eighteenth century. In particular, it is possible to establish a convincing comparison between our drawing under consideration here and the cycle of frescoes dated to the middle of the fourth decade of the eighteenth century, which the painter executed, signing it, in theconvent of the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome, where the treatment of the figures and the landscape denotes similar finesse of draftsmanship and intimate and quiet sentiment. These factors bring the artist's experience back into the sphere of that vigifine and antirhetorical taste that already preludes, at least forty years earlier,to the noble eloquence of early Neoclassicism.While not being able to indicate a precise relationship with a certain work of thisMaestro it is well possible that our drawing is to be considered as a preliminary study for an altarpiece, however, today not preserved or not yet identified, to be dated within 1730-35.Precious and well preserved this drawing is a splendid vestige of the Roman eighteenth century, still rich and fertile with new discoveries and insights. In faith, Claudio Strinati"