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Italian school, early 18th century. "Lesson of the Virgin to the Child Jesus". Oil on canvas. Re-tinted. It presents slight restorations. Measurements: 71,5 x 53 cm. Image of devotional character in which two recurrent actions in the religious representations are introduced. The lessons of the Virgin to the Child Jesus, as an example of an instructive mother, following the role of Saint Anne and also the representation of the Holy Family. Which we deduce from the appearance of St. Joseph and St. Johnny. In the most common sense of the expression, the Holy Family includes the closest relatives of the Child Jesus, i.e. mother and grandmother or mother and nurturing father. In both cases, whether it is Saint Anne or Saint Joseph who appears, it is a group of three figures. From an artistic point of view, the arrangement of this terrestrial Trinity poses the same problems and suggests the same solutions as the heavenly Trinity. However, the difficulties are fewer. It is no longer a question of a single God in three persons, whose essential unity must be expressed at the same time as his diversity. The three personages are united by a blood link, certainly, but they do not constitute an indivisible block. Moreover, all three are represented in human form, while the dove of the Holy Spirit introduces into the divine Trinity a zoomorphic element that is difficult to amalgamate with two anthropomorphic figures. Formally, this work is dominated by the influence of the Roman-Bolognese classicism of the Carracci and their followers, one of the two great currents of the Italian Baroque, together with Caravaggio's naturalism. Thus, the figures are monumental, with idealised faces and serene, balanced gestures, in an idealised representation based on classical canons. The rhetoric of the gestures, theatrical and eloquent, clearly baroque, is also typical of 17th-century Italian classicism. The importance of the chromatic aspect should also be noted, which is very well thought out, toned and balanced, centred on basic shades of red, ochre and blue. Also typical of this school of Baroque classicism is the way the scene is composed, with a circular rhythm and closed on one side while opening up to the landscape on the other. However, despite the dominance of the classical, there is a certain influence of naturalism, especially in the lighting. Thus, although the light is natural, it is directed, focusing on the main scene and leaving the rest in semi-darkness, thus differentiating the different planes of space and focusing the viewer's attention on the scene.

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Italian school, early 18th century. "Lesson of the Virgin to the Child Jesus". Oil on canvas. Re-tinted. It presents slight restorations. Measurements: 71,5 x 53 cm. Image of devotional character in which two recurrent actions in the religious representations are introduced. The lessons of the Virgin to the Child Jesus, as an example of an instructive mother, following the role of Saint Anne and also the representation of the Holy Family. Which we deduce from the appearance of St. Joseph and St. Johnny. In the most common sense of the expression, the Holy Family includes the closest relatives of the Child Jesus, i.e. mother and grandmother or mother and nurturing father. In both cases, whether it is Saint Anne or Saint Joseph who appears, it is a group of three figures. From an artistic point of view, the arrangement of this terrestrial Trinity poses the same problems and suggests the same solutions as the heavenly Trinity. However, the difficulties are fewer. It is no longer a question of a single God in three persons, whose essential unity must be expressed at the same time as his diversity. The three personages are united by a blood link, certainly, but they do not constitute an indivisible block. Moreover, all three are represented in human form, while the dove of the Holy Spirit introduces into the divine Trinity a zoomorphic element that is difficult to amalgamate with two anthropomorphic figures. Formally, this work is dominated by the influence of the Roman-Bolognese classicism of the Carracci and their followers, one of the two great currents of the Italian Baroque, together with Caravaggio's naturalism. Thus, the figures are monumental, with idealised faces and serene, balanced gestures, in an idealised representation based on classical canons. The rhetoric of the gestures, theatrical and eloquent, clearly baroque, is also typical of 17th-century Italian classicism. The importance of the chromatic aspect should also be noted, which is very well thought out, toned and balanced, centred on basic shades of red, ochre and blue. Also typical of this school of Baroque classicism is the way the scene is composed, with a circular rhythm and closed on one side while opening up to the landscape on the other. However, despite the dominance of the classical, there is a certain influence of naturalism, especially in the lighting. Thus, although the light is natural, it is directed, focusing on the main scene and leaving the rest in semi-darkness, thus differentiating the different planes of space and focusing the viewer's attention on the scene.

Estimate 2 500 - 3 500 EUR
Starting price 1 900 EUR

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