Bernardo Monsù - Saint Peter Repentant

Work attributed to the Danish painter Bernardo Keilhau (Helsingor, 1624 - Rome 1687), Italianized Bernardo Monsù.

The painter, at the age of eighteen, moved to Amsterdam, where he remained until 1651, frequenting Rembrandt's house and then that of Henrik Uylenburgh. That year, he moved to Italy, where he remained for the rest of his life, approximately thirty-five years. Rome was the final destination of a complex itinerary; but the most significant experience was the five years he spent in northern Italy, between Venice, Bergamo, and several cities in Romagna. His exposure to Venetian artistic culture brought him into contact with the illustrious sixteenth-century tradition and revealed to him the richness of the impastos of Domenico Fetti, Bernardo Strozzi, and Francesco Maffei. Sources still recall a large production of portraits that remain to be identified. As has been noted, such an influx of paintings featuring such subjects, executed with virtuosic alacrity, certainly attracted the attention of later Venetian painters, particularly that of Gianbattista Piazzetta. Between 1655 and 1656 Monsù stayed in Romagna; he was employed by Cardinal Acquaviva, legate of Ravenna, and by the Benedictines of San Vitale.

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