Variants and Copies of Vouet’s Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene in Czech Collections / Varianti e copie di Marta che rimprovera sua sorella Maria Maddalena di Simone Vouet nelle collezioni della Repubblica Ceca

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2023-12-18

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https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/3202

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The text deals with the variants and copies of the painting by the French Caravaggist Simon Vouet (1590–1649) Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary, kept in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and brings new information about the genesis of the individual copies. The newly discovered variant from the collection of the Sternberg family at the castle in Častolovice in the Czech Republic stands out for its high quality of artistic execution and is thus the closest to the original. Art-historical analysis and non-invasive research have yielded findings that suggest that the author of the Častolovice painting is a painter from the immediate circle of Vouet and that this painting became the model for the creation of a copy at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. 

 

Il testo tratta delle varianti e delle copie del dipinto del caravaggista francese Simon Vouet (1590–1649) Marta che rimprovera la vana sorella Maria, conservato al Kunsthistorisches Museum di Vienna, fornendo nuove informazioni sulla genesi delle singole copie. La variante appena scoperta, proveniente dalla collezione della famiglia Sternberg nel castello di Častolovice nella Repubblica Ceca, si distingue per l’alta qualità dell’esecuzione artistica ed è quindi la più vicina all’originale. L’analisi storico-artistica e le ricerche non invasive hanno portato a risultati che suggeriscono che l’autore del dipinto di Častolovice è un pittore della cerchia immediata di Vouet e che questo quadro è diventato il modello per la creazione di una copia allo Smithsonian American Art Museum di Washington.

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Author Biographies

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Palacký University Olomouc Křížkovského 511/8 779 00 Olomouc

Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University

scientific researcher

PhDr. Eliška Zlatohlávková, Ph.D.

Born: 12 March 1985

E-mail: eliska.zlatohlavkova@upol.cz ORCID: 0000-0002-1533-8077

 

Position:

 

since 2020: Palacký University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History, senior researcher, leader of the team of Arthistorians: OA ITI ARTECA: Advanced Physical-Chemical Methods in the Research and Protection of Cultural and Artistic Heritage

 

since 2017: Researcher at the Institute of Christian Art History, Catholic Theological Faculty, Charles University

 

2016–2020: Lectures History of Art and Architecture, Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Landscape Architecture

 

2010–2014: Assistant in the department Studia Rudolphina, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i.

 

Education:

 

2010–2014: Postgraduate studies Charles University, Philosophical Faculty, Institute for Art History, Ph.D. thesis: Iconography of Rudolf II, date of defence: 17 June 2014, supervisor: Prof. PhDr.

Lubomír Konečný

 

2007–2008: Semester study at Università degli studi, Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia, Florence

 

2004–2010: Charles University, Philosophical Faculty, Institute for Art History, Master thesis: Two paintings of Jacopo Vignali from the National Gallery in Prague, supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Lubomír Konečný

 

Significant international experiences / scholarships:

 

DAAD scholarship: Research stays for university teachers and researchers at Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (15 November 2020 – 14 January 2021), research topic: Drawings of Karel Škréta in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin

 

Study course on Theory and Practise of Drawing: Connoisseurship – Collection discourse – Curatorial Practise organized byAlbertina and University of Vienna, Institute for Art History (30 July – 3 August 2018)

 

Grant projects:

 

2020–2022: Palacký University Olomouc: OA ITI ARTECA: Advanced Physical-Chemical Methods in the Research and Protection of Cultural and Artistic Heritage: senior manager

 

2018–2021: From Kunstkammer to Picture gallery: Collecting in 17th century Bohemia, Project no. PRIMUS/17/HUM/14,co-applicant/principal investigator, grant supported by the Charles University in Prague

 

2017–2021: Charles University: OPVVV: Improving the quality of education in the UK and its relevance to the needs of the labor market, team member

 

Lectures and Conferences:

 

2022

International workshop Collections in early modern eraDepartment of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in collaboration with Univeristy of Leiden, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and University of Trnava, Olomouc 13 June – 17 June, contribution: Collection of Adolf Vratislav of Sternberg (1627–1703) and Its Fate

 

International workshop on Kunstkammer, organised by Central Collecting Europe, 24 May, on-line, contribution: Echoes of Rudolf II’s kunstkammer in Peter Wok’s (1539–1611) residence in Třeboň (Wittingau) – spatial organisation of art collections

 

Colloquium Ars linearis, contribution: Kresba s námětem Stětí sv. Kateřiny ze sbírky Jiřího Karáska ze Lvovic / Drawing with the subject of the Beheading of St. Catherine from the collection of Jiří Karásek from Lvovice (28 March)

 

2018

Colloquium Ars linearis, contribution: Saturnové Bartholomea Sprangera a Hendricka Goltzia / The Saturns of Bartholomeus Spranger and Hendrich Goltzius (19 March)

 

Bibliography:

 

2022

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Jana Zapletalová, Miroslav Kindl, Chefs-d’œuvre of the Sternberg collection: Selected masterpiecesfrom the Častolovice chateau, Journal of the History of Collections, 34, Vol. 2, pp. 233–248, DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhab036

 

2021

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Alcune osservazioni sul recente rinvenimeto di un quadro rappresentante il “Giudizio universale” alla maniera di Hans Rottenhammer, Intrecci d’Arte 10, pp. 87–98

 

 

2020

Alice Fornasiero, Eliška Zlatohlávková, Miroslav Kindl, From Studiolo to Picture Gallery: Secular Spaces for Collections in the Lands of the Bohemia Crown on the Threshold of Early Modern Era, Prague 2020

 

Eliška Zlatohlávková and Alice Fornasiero, The studiolo of Rudolf II at Prague Castle, Journal of the History of Collections XXXII, No. 2, 2020, pp. 239–244

 

2019

Eliška Zlatohlávková, The Influence of the Carraccis on the Drawings of Karel Škréta, in: Magdaléna Nová (ed.), Drawing Is a Basis of Every Art, Prague 2019, pp. 118–130.

 

2018

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Saturnové Bartholomea Sprangera a Hendricka Goltzia, in: Alena Volrábová (ed.), Ars linearis VIII, Prague 2018, pp. 37–44, English version: The Saturns of Bartholomeus Spranger and Hendrick Goltzius

 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, catalogue entries: František Kupka – Biblioman, Amorfa, Dvoubarevná fuga, Vanoucí modře II, Tryskání II, in: Markéta Ježková, Jitka Šosová et al., Tož to kupte!, exh. cat., Prague 2018, pp. 273, 274, 278.

 

2017

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Spranger, nebo Goltzius? Přípravné kresby pro grafické cykly, in: Alena Volrábová (ed.), Ars linearis VII, Prague 2017, pp. 4–14, English version: Spranger or Goltzius? Preparatory studies for the cycle of Creation, pp. 120–123.

 

2016 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, cat. entry: Bernardino Lanino, The Birth of Cain, in: Martina Miláčková, ed., The Kroměříž Collection of Drawings: Drawings by Old Masters, Olomouc 2016, pp. 49–52 

 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Giovanni Contarini, un pittore misterioso alla corte di Rodolfo II, in: Arte documento 32, pp. 156–163 

 

Vladimír Lekeš, Agnes Huslein-Arco, Ludmila Lekeš, Eliška Zlatohlávková, František Kupka: Catalogue raisonée des huiles / Catalogue Raisonée of Oil Paintings / Soupis olejomaleb, Praha 2016 

 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Lombardská východiska Arcimboldova Autoportrétu, in: Alena Volrábová, ed., Ars linearis VI, Praha 2016, pp. 20–25 

 

2015 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Kresba Bernardina Lanina ve sbírkách olomouckých arcibiskupů, in: Alena Volrábová, ed., Ars linearis V, Praha 2015, pp. 44–49 

 

2014 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Oltářní obraz Nové smlouvy v mnichovském kostele sv. Michaela, in: Alena Volrábová, ed., Ars linearis IV, Praha 2014, pp. 36–41 

 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Znázornění císaře Rudolfa II. ve výtvarném umění kolem roku 1611, in: P. Beneš, P. Hlaváček, T. Sterneck, eds., Čtrnáct mučedníků pražských. Vpád Pasovských a závěr vlády Rudolfa II., Praha 2014, pp. 128–132 

 

2012 

Eliška Zlatohlávková, Privacy and Propaganda: The Iconography of the Emperor Rudolf II, in: Štěpán Vácha a Lubomír Konečný, eds., Hans von Aachen in Context, Proceedings of the International Conference, Prague 22–25 September 2010, Praha 2012, pp. 237–243

Patrik Farkaš, Palacký University Olomouc Křížkovského 511/8 779 00 Olomouc

Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University

scientific researcher

05/05/2020 – CURRENT Olomouc, Czechia

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ASSISTANT UNIVERZITA PALACKÉHO V OLOMOUCI

02/2023 – CURRENT Bratislava, Slovakia

DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSEVATION SCIENCE MONUMENTS BOARD OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

08/2018 – 08/2022 Olomouc, Czechia, PH.D. (FULL-TIME STUDY) Univerzita Palackého

31/01/2020 – 09/2020 Roma RM, Italy, INTERNSHIP Sapienza Università di Roma

Selected:

Patrik Farkaš – Kateřina Musilová, Pohľad na zámok Ernstbrunn z južnej strany. Umeleckohistorický opis a

reštaurovanie pamiatky, in: Katarína Chmelinová – Boris Kvasnica (edd.), Restaurology, Bratislava 2016, s.

36–45.

Patrik Farkaš, Johann Christian Brand (1722–1795) a jeho uhorská tvorba v kontextoch akademickej výučby

krajinomaľby vo Viedni, e-Monumentica V, 2017, č. 2, s. 21–36.

Patrik Farkaš, The Last Will of Jakob Bogdani (1658–1724), an Upper-Hungarian Painter at the British Court,

Umění LXVII, 2019, č. 1–2, s. 91–95.

Patrik Farkaš, Obrazy Antona Schmidta (1713–1773) v kostole Sedembolestnej Panny Márie v Brhlovciach a

ich reštaurovanie, Monument Revue VIII, 2019, č. 1, s. 16–21.

Patrik Farkaš, Reštaurovanie hlavného oltára evanjelického kostola v Koceľovciach a nové bádateľské výzvy,

Monument Revue VIII, 2019, č. 1, s. 85.

Patrik Farkaš, Recepcia krajinomalby na území Slovenska z pohľadu umeleckého mecénstva, in: Katarína

Chmelinová – Katarína Beňová (edd.), Mecénstvo umenia okolo roku 1800. Bratislava 2020, s. 154–179.

Patrik Farkaš, Krajinomaľba na severovýchode Karpatského oblúka na prahu 19. storočia, in: Katarína

Beňová (ed.), Ján Jakub Stunder (1759–1811) nikde cudzincom. Kodaň – Budapešť – Levoča – Banská Bystrica,

 

How to Cite

Zlatohlávková, E., & Farkaš, P. (2023). Variants and Copies of Vouet’s Martha Scolding Her Vain Sister Mary Magdalene in Czech Collections / Varianti e copie di Marta che rimprovera sua sorella Maria Maddalena di Simone Vouet nelle collezioni della Repubblica Ceca. Il Capitale Culturale. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, (28), 381–405. https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/3202