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Marcello Massarenti
Don Marcello Massarenti (Budrio, 1817 — 1905), a Vatican official who helped Pope Pius IX escape from Rome at the time of the Roman republican uprising of 1849, rose to become Almoner of the Pope. In his official position he traveled extensively and amassed a collection of Italian paintings and Roman antiquities especially during the years following the Unification of Italy, when the suppression of many monastic communities and the displacement of many aristocrats from hereditary positions brought a great number of works of art onto the market in Italy, both privately and publicly. He received an honorary knighthood from Franz Josef of Austria and was decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia.〔William R. Johnston, ''William and Henry Walters: the reticent collectors'' (1999) pp. 154-63.〕
His private lodgings were modest, but he rented space for his gallery in Palazzo Rusticucci-Accoramboni, Rome, where he welcomed visitors. The palazzo, in the former piazza Rusticucci, was demolished by Benito Mussolini along with the rest of the ''spina'' of medieval and renaissance houses to made way for the expansive via della Conciliazione, leading to piazza San Pietro. A catalogue of the Galleria Massarenti was printed in 1881, when the prelate contemplated selling the collection to Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst at Strasbourg. At that time connoisseurship of Old Master paintings was in its infancy, and the works received highly optimistic traditional attributions. An English-language ''Catalogue of pictures, marbles, bronzes, antiquities... Palazzo Accoramboni'' (Rome: Forzani) was published in 1894, with a view to attracting prospective purchasers. The catalogue was assembled by a painter Edouard van Esbroeck, still with such wishful attributions that the catalogue cast somewhat of a temporary cloud over the collection as a whole. Joseph Duveen, his famous nephew recalled, had been less than impressed by the authenticity of the paintings, and Duveen's close associate Bernard Berenson, played an uncertain role in the sale of the collection, disparaging the attribution to Raphael of Massarenti's ''Madonna of the Candelbra''〔The ''Madonna of the Candelabra'' is currently ascribed to "School of Raphael" by the Walters Art Museum.〕 in a letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1897.〔Berenson to Mrs Gardner, 11 August 1897, in ''The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner'', R. Hadley, ed., 1987, p. 92.〕
The purchase ''en bloc'' in 1902 of his collection of paintings, Renaissance bronzes, Greek vases and Roman antiquities, 1700 items in all,〔Johnston 1999, 153f; see (on-line excerpt ).〕 by the American railroad magnate and established collector Henry Walters of Baltimore, Maryland, formed a nucleus of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Its loss to the nation raised no protest among Italians, and was dismissively remarked upon by Wilhelm von Bode,〔"Polémica intorno al valore della Galleria Massarenti di Roma acquistata del signore H. Walters di Baltimore" ''La Bibliophilia: Raccolta di scritti sull'arte antica'' 4 (1902-03) pp 335-39.〕 who was informed that Walters was advised in the purchase by William M. Laffan, an owner of the ''New York Sun''.〔Henry Walters bought several German and Dutch paintings at the Henry Laffan sale, American Art Association, New York, 20 January 1911 (Johnston 1999, p. 187, note 44).〕 Bode's account of Massarenti's personality was less than flattering: the man whom others would describe as affable, Bode found wily and agreeable, amassing the wealth to indulge his passion for art.〔Bode, noted by Johnston 1999, 154.〕
The collection, for which Europeans of the time considered Walters to have greatly overpaid, has weathered a century of close study with new, less inflated attributions, and greater confidence in their authenticity, providing the city of Baltimore with a first-rate gallery of art.
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