Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese acquired by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca

March 9 2026

Image of Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese acquired by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca

Picture: finestresullarte.info

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from Italy that the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca have acquired the following painting of The Crucified Christ Triumphing over Death, Evil and Sin by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese (d. 1634), daughter of Cavalier Borghese (spotted via @mweilc).

According to the article linked above (the publisher has disclosed their use of an automatic translator):

Giovanni Baglione in his Lives of 1642 describes her as a woman educated to independence and from a very young age introduced by her father to painting and humanistic studies and deeply attached to her father. The painting was commissioned from her by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Guido di Bagno and is inspired by the composition of the same title painted in 1621 by her father at the behest of Maffeo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII, which is now preserved at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.


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