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Madonna with Child, XVII Century anticSwiss 29/09/2021 11:39:19 http://www.anticswiss.com Madonna with Child, XVII century FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Ars Antiqua srl Milano Style: Altri stili +39 02 29529057 393664680856 Height:75cm Width:61cm Material:Olio su tela Price:2800€ DETAILED DESCRIPTION: Bolognese school, 17th century Madonna with Sleeping Child Oil on canvas, 75 x 61 cm - with frame 85 x 70.5 cm The intoxicating delicacy inherent in the colorism of the present produces an exemplary light in correspondence with the Son supported by the Mother. The traditional representation of the Madonna and Child is here enriched by multiple allegorical and spiritual undertones, of profound catechetical value. The Child is in fact represented as sleeping, softly wrapped by the Mother seated on a bench; however, the particular position, in accordance with the sheet that surrounds her hips and with the sprung right arm, betray the implicit foreshadowing of the death of the Son. Even the attributive choice of the apple, the fruit of original sin, helps to structure a reflection on the sacrifice of Christ, as only through this has humanity known the possibility of redemption. The fully veiled composition, with a pleasant chiaroscuro juxtaposition and exceptional intimacy, is part of the full artistic maturity of Bologna. In fact, the painting supports that particular pictorial matrix that extended, in full Baroque, from the capital to the entire region, fomenting a markedly academic naturalism. Adherence to this classical line is collected, in the present, through various figurative references to the Bolognese culture of this golden century. In fact, consider the capitals Madonna and Child by Guido Reni (1575-1642) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), preserved today respectively at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (NC) and Hampton Court; if one is a model for the physiognomic construction of the Madonna and for the softness of her veils, in addition to the sheet / shroud of the Son, the other, also known as the Madonna of silence, constitutes a renewed and solid affirmation of the representation of Sleeping Baby Jesus. Curtain and cushion tassels, together with the inevitable white sheet, made by Domenichino (1581-1641) for his Madonna of the Rose with Child (Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, from the Roman church of Santa Maria della Vittoria) instead they confirm the adoptive parallelism of common 1 / 3 anticSwiss 29/09/2021 11:39:19 http://www.anticswiss.com models. Likewise does Carlo Cignani (1628-1719) in a painting now in a private collection. Stringent typological affinities can be discerned in the Madonna and Child by Guercino (1591-1666) today in a private Milanese collection, more explicit in the future prefiguration of the Son's destiny compared to the present. The same happens for a similar painting by Giovanni Battista Salvi known as Sassoferrato (1609-1685) who, although from the Marches and working in the city of Rome, was refined in the workshop of Domenichino, in turn a pupil of Annibale Carracci, also receiving the lesson by Guido Reni and Francesco Albani (private collection). But it is above all to the figurativeism of Gianandrea Sirani (1610-1670) and of his daughter Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) that the present seems to concern. In fact, the Child assumes the same pose as that of San Giuseppe with Child (Monza, Musei Civici, formerly Reni's circle) and is very similar, for glimpse and material treatment, to the Madonna and Child recently last on the antiques market painted by his father Gianandrea . Elisabetta instead collects in the paintings today in a private collection and in the Municipal Art Gallery of Faenza the vibrant brightness that shapes the body of Jesus, of reflecting softness. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/madonna-with-child-xvii-century-26313 2 / 3 anticSwiss 29/09/2021 11:39:19 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 3 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).
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