Sta forte mio core

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Sta forte mio core, to scale
60 × 80 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
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Sta forte mio core

Sta forte mio core

Catalogue ID1.23
Artist Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661); Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660)
Object type miniature
Date1652
PlaceRome
Collection Biblioteca Casanatense (Rome)
Inv. no.I-Rc_Ms_2478_17
Tech. / supportbrown ink, paper, pen
Measures60 × 80 mm
Subject25H213 — river
41A12 — castle
43C11 — hunting, chase
47I2211 — herd, flock

River landscape with a duck hunter aiming from the riverbank, surrounded by peasants, sheep, and boatmen. In the background, an imposing crag with multiple fortified buildings towers above the scene, adding a theatrical vertical axis to the composition.

Cantata
Sta forte mio core
Composer
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini (1614-1691)
Manuscript
Casanatense cantata album — I-Rc Ms2478
CLORI
https://cantataitaliana.it/scheda/786

Bianco, Anna. “The Master of the Roman Songbook.” Going South: Artistic Exchange between the Netherlands and Italy in the 17th Century, vol. IX, RKD & NIKI, 2023. (nr. 17)

Biblioteca Casanatense — nowadays current