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Luigi Amidani (1591-1629), Holy Family with S. Giovannino

FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Ars Antiqua srl Milano Style: Alta epoca +39 02 29529057 393664680856 Height:32cm Width:26cm Material:Olio su tavola Price:3600€

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Luigi Amidani (, 1591 - 1629) Holy Family with Saint John Oil on wood, 32 x 26 cm

The work in question depicts the Holy Family with the Virgin holding the baby Jesus while he is playing with Saint John handing him the Cross, while Saint Joseph remains aloof on the background of an elaborate woodland landscape. Of great intensity and humanity are the two children who play tenderly together, while the parents assist by paying attention to their little son. The panel shows Luigi Amidani (Parma, 1591 - 1629), a relative of the painter Giulio Cesare Amidani, in the hand of a painter active in the workshop of Bartolomeo Schedoni (, 1578 - Parma, 1615) and very close to his ways in the realization of the Madonnas. , best known to eighteenth-century critics and confused with Luigi until the last century, when his figure as a painter became clear. Luigi continuously studies Schedoni's Madonnas (see the Coronation of the Virgin in the Private Collection), starting with his pupil with the artist in 1607. Together the two Emilians also work on the decoration of the nine chapels in the abbey of Fontevivo, of which only three paintings by Schedoni remain (San Pietro, San Paolo and San Sebastiano, ) and a couple of Amidani still preserved in . One of his trips to Rome, from which he acquired a more naturalistic vein, visible in the works of the following years, is probably to be placed in the second half of the years 1610-20. These are the years of maturity during which the artist develops his own characters, in addition to those already Schedonian such as drapery, for example the crouching pose of the Virgin, taken up also in the Madonna and Child of the Banca Popolare dell'Emilia-Romagna , or even the subtle rendering of the features, replicated in the Maddalena in a private collection. After Schedoni died in 1615, Amidani collects his legacy by continuing to license works that show the typical traits of the master, as in the Holy Family with Santa Elisabetta and San Giovannino (Pilotta, Parma), while moving towards other authors, such as Sisto Badalocchio, returned from Rome in 1617, as can

1 / 3 anticSwiss 02/10/2021 13:24:33 http://www.anticswiss.com be seen in the Amidani canvas with the Burial of Christ in a private collection, which proposes a classicist language following the example of the Carraccis. The drapery undergoes a simplification, characterized by a without half tones and by sharp curvilinear traces, while the features crystallize into dreamy expressions, with the aim of giving life to a solemn tale. After his stay in Milan around 1620-1630, Amidani progressively distances himself from Schedoni's ways, while always maintaining the master's vocabulary in the Virgin and in the atmosphere of affectionate and domestic intimacy, accompanied by the accentuated volume of the swollen robes that embrace the bodies wrapping them and emphasizing their shapes. Therefore, see in comparison the paintings by Amidani preserved in the Pilotta complex in Parma: the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth, Saint Agnes, the Madonna and Child between cherubs and saints, for the type of heart-shaped faces, from the chin thin and pronounced. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/luigi-amidani-1591-1629--holy-family-with-s-giovannino-21859

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