The Gallery of the Accademia di San
Luca houses a painting representing
Samson drinking from the Jawbone of
an Ass, submitted by the roman
painter Do-menico Pellegrini at the
competition «Anonimo Mecenate»
announced in 1819 by the Accademia
di San Luca. The analysis of the
painting allowed the identification
of the personality of a painter so far
unknown to the scholars, bearing
the same name and younger than the
celebrated Do-menico Pellegrini of
Galliera Veneta, who bequeathed to
the Academy a large number of
paintings. The homonymy and the
contiguity in time and place of their
production generated in some cases
contamination of data and works.
The attempt to reconstruct the profile
of the young Pellegrini has been
also an opportunity to focus on some
details concerning the homonym
Venetian painter.
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