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Abstract
Gian Maria Riminaldi was an honorary member of the Roman Accademia di S. Luca, a co-founder of the Accademia del Nudo, and a friend and patron of Anton Raphael Mengs. Reflecting Mengsian ideals in 1769 Riminaldi acquired thirteen terra-cotta busts attributed to the early sixteenth-century Ferrarese sculptor, Alfonso Lombardi, and hired a Ferrarese painter, Giuseppe Ghedini, to restore them, to strip them of their polychromy and paint them white. Ghedini refused. Their dispute and Ghedini's ultimate victory reveal the ideological breach between Riminaldi and many of his Ferrarese contemporaries.
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Catherine Turrill
Catherine Turrill, Assistant Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. Her publications include an essay in Volume XXIV of Studies in the History of Art, “Girolamo da Carpi's Muzzarelli Altarpiece.” She is writing a book on Ercole de' Roberti's altarpieces for the Lateran Canons Regular of St. Augustine [Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 03755–3570].