Saint Peter, Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (1634-1688)

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FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Antichità Castelbarco Riva del Garda Style: Rinascimento, Luigi XIII +39 0464 973235 393494296409 Height:80cm Width:64cm Material:Olio su tela Price:6400€

DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

Giovanni Battista Beinaschi (Fossano c. 1634 - Naples 1688) The Apostle Saint Peter in prayer

Roman school of the second half of the seventeenth century Oil painting on canvas cm. 66 x 49, framed cm. 80 x 64 Short video of the work: https://youtu.be/AV-tR8XmBDo

Complete details of the work: https://www.antichitacastelbarco.it/it/prodotto/giovanni- battista-beinaschi--san-pietro

The work shows us an intense image of Saint Paul the Apostle, portrayed according to the typical iconography that sees him as an elderly man, against the dark background and with his hands joined in a gesture of prayer, while the gaze is directed towards the sky in a profound gesture of religiosity.

By studying the stylistic characteristics of the work and the relative compositional details, we can circumscribe the area of ??attribution to the late-Baroque painter Giovan Battista Beinaschi, whose prolific activity was concentrated above all between Rome, where he was formed, and Naples. Nevertheless, he frequently moved throughout his career between Turin, Parma, perhaps Bologna and Genoa, assimilating various artistic influences from all over the place.

If, at first, he showed a propensity for Roman classicism, this influence was soon supplanted by an increasingly pronounced approach to the Baroque cultural front.

Many critics, in particular, frame the personality of Beinaschi in the current of "dark

1 / 4 anticSwiss 26/09/2021 13:20:57 http://www.anticswiss.com painters" (although active in the second half of the seventeenth century) who opposed both the smoothness of the Baroque classicism of Maratta and the exuberance of the triumphant Baroque of Pietro da Cortona.

In a certain way his painting is close to the ways of Giacinto Brandi but, first of all, sensitive to the examples of Giovanni Lanfranco, a true model of Beinaschi. This suggestion was added, already with the first stay in Naples, the knowledge of the work of Mattia Preti, from whose spotless, grazing and dramatic luminism was deeply marked.

In our case, a comparison with similar subjects made in Rome around 1670/80 is enough, such as the 'San Pietro' from the Durazzo Pallavicini collection in Genoa.

The main feature of Beinaschi's pictorial style, and which we find in the canvas presented, is the use of very strong contrasts of light and shadows, capable of plastically bringing out the physicality of the Saint, underlined by the luministic action on the warm and intense colors, which Mattia Preti's results place it in constant agreement.

The work, like all our objects, is accompanied by a certificate of photographic authenticity in accordance with the law (FIMA Italia).

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