Talk:Giacomo Ceruti

Number of surviving works

I've taken out this line:

There are about 50 works attributed to Ceruti, dating mainly from 1725-1740. (Spike, 1986, pp. 66.)

After checking the source, I think the problem stems from a rather ambiguous sentence in the cited essay. The passage in the original reads:

What jolts one to attention in the group of some 50 surviving works, which, according to the latest and fullest study by Mina Gregori, belong to the period around 1725-40, is their insistent view to expose, present and keep in view a section of society that nobody really wants to see, much less live with.

There are two ways to read this: either all of Ceruti's works date from 1725-40, depict beggars, and are about 50 in number; or the writer is referring to an identifiable subgroup of Ceruti's works—the early genre scenes of beggars, of which there are about 50—which date from those years. The second interpretation has to be correct, because many of Ceruti's surviving paintings date from the 1740s and 50s, and he painted a large number of religious paintings, still lifes, and portraits of wealthy clients. Ewulp 03:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)