Boston buys the Saint Cecilia by Diana Di Rosa

29/7/23 - Acquisition - Boston, Museum of Fine Arts - In our review of the last Maastricht Fair, we wrote that a painting presented by the Porcini gallery, Saint Cecilia with an Angel (ill. 1), had been acquired by an American museum. We can now give its name: it is the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Diana di Rosa was sometimes called Anella Di Rosa, perhaps because it was a diminutive of a nickname like Dianella, as explained by Giuseppe Porzio [1]. It rectifies a large number of inaccuracies reported by ancient historiography, which takes its sources from Bernardo De Dominici’s Vita di Anna dette…