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Madonna with child and San Giovannino, 17th century

FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Ars Antiqua srl Milano Style: Altri stili +39 02 29529057 393664680856 Height:66cm Width:51cm Material:Olio su tela Price:3400€

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Emilian school, 17th century Madonna with Child and St. John Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 66.5 cm - with frame 75 x 59 cm

On the occasion of the first meeting with St. John, an episode developed within the artistic iconography and not foreseen within the Sacred Scriptures, where the Baptist knows Christ once an adult, the Child is variously profound in a gesture of blessing or offering traditional attributes to him, such as the goldfinch. In the present, the version of the extension of the blessing is respected, understood with the right hand of the Son, coinciding with the dextera Dei more generally, which here moves three fingers as a tribute to the Trinity. The debt towards Byzantine art, the first elaborator of gestures of assent, is here overcome and replaced, figuratively, with the western adlocutio, with which the Roman commanders called the troops. The Christian resemantization is evident: the divine now recalls the faithful / Saint John, promising him Salvation. The typically seventeenth-century emotional charge is poured out in the present also through the extraordinary plasticism that chiaroscuro the portraits. A sculptural colorism slides along garments and silhouettes, solidifying the pictorial material with turgid realism. The heartfelt interest in the three-dimensional investigation and in the luminous mirrors that reflect the couple of the Virgin with the Son, himself a source of light, with a candid pallor, denounce the artist's belonging to the Emilian school. For compositional and formal evidence it is possible to place the author in that particular workshop that arose from the influence of Lorenzo Sabatini (, 1530-, 1576), where typically central Italian stylistic features were adopted by virtue of the artist's stay in the cities of Rome and Florence. The main influence, however, derives from the suggestions of (1575-1642), essential in the Emilian territory, here reworked through a more lyrical and direct definition of the physiognomies. In the concretely material modeling, contaminations deriving from the legacy of the Genoese Bernardo Strozzi and the Modenese Bartolomeo Schedoni (1578-1615) are recognizable. It is appropriate to

1 / 3 anticSwiss 28/09/2021 20:23:47 http://www.anticswiss.com compare the present with paintings of a similar subject made by Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-1670) as well as Domenico Maria Canuti (1625-1684), closer to it in terms of dating. Sirani's artistic parable started through an internship with Giacomo Cavedone to finally reach a heartfelt apprenticeship with Guido Reni, of whom the artist was a favorite disciple. Canutì instead signed a canvas in which the same figurative innovation occurs, especially in the hands of the Virgin and in the setting of the group; A pupil of , Canuti also participated, like the present, in the polyformed Emilian Baroque artistic culture. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/madonna-with-child-and-san-giovannino-17th-century-24436

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