Due tele con Giacobbe e Rachele: inediti e precisazioni sull’attività di Felice e Lucia Torelli

Irene Graziani

doi:10.60923/issn.2240-7251/23139

Two Paintings Depicting Jacob and Rachel: Unpublished Works and Clarifications on the Work of Felice and Lucia Torelli

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Irene Graziani Università di Bologna

Irene Graziani is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. She has worked on Eighteenth-Century Bolognese painting, with a particular focus on the activities of Bolognese artists working in the cosmopolitan courts of Europe, and on portraiture. A further area of her research concerns the phenomenon of the woman artist and the relationship between the image and the paths of spirituality taken by female monastic communities.

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https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2240-7251/23139

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Felice Torelli, Lucia Torelli, Eighteenth-Century Bolognese Painting, Portraiture, Counts Zappi

Abstract

Starting with two unpublished paintings depicting Jacob and Rachel, one by Felice Torelli and the other by his wife Lucia Casalini, this contribution retraces the work of both painters, updating their catalogue with the inclusion of new paintings not yet part of their specific historiography, and clarifying chronologies on the basis of documentary findings or stylistic comparisons.

Lucia’s painting, actually a portrait “in the guise of”, created in 1727 for a patron in Imola, as were the already known portraits of the Pighini counts, suggests that the painter may have stayed in that city in that year.

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2026-01-14

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Graziani, I. (2025). Two Paintings Depicting Jacob and Rachel: Unpublished Works and Clarifications on the Work of Felice and Lucia Torelli. INTRECCI d’arte, 14(14), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2240-7251/23139

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No. 14 (2025): Bologna e le arti nel Settecento

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