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Presentation of Mary in the Temple Oil on canvas Scope of Pietro Bardellino

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Scope of Pietro Bardellino (1728-1806), circa 1760s Presentation of Mary in the Temple Oil on canvas, 163 x 150 cm With frame, cm 166 x 152 Dealt with in the proto-gospel of James, an apocryphal gospel, Mary's presentation to the temple remains to this day one of the most moving Marian artistic episodes. The moment figured here, in which the little Virgin is encouraged to the high priest by her nobly determined mother Anna, encapsulates a composition harmoniously cradled between Baroque and Classicism. All present turned in amazement to observe the young woman's unexpected entry into the sacred premises, while a direct light detached her figure from the soft incensed air. This strong expressive naturalness, added to the clear formal concreteness used by the artist, intoxicates the painting with the academicism already belonging to Francesco Solimena and Giacomo del Po, on a par with the greatest Neapolitan masters. The thoughtful consistency with which the artist organizes the luminous and tangible colors also formalizes his dependence on Pietro Bardellino, a distinguished exponent of the first Rococo investigations on Neapolitan soil. Committed from his youth to the great hall of the Farmacia degli Incurabili, Bardellino turned to the Oratory of the Confraternity of the Whites of the Holy Spirit, working at the same time for Bitonto Cathedral. Appointed a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, he was recalled there as an active collaborator by Vanvitelli himself, in 1773. A debtor in turn to the style of Francesco de Mura, his master, by the mid-18th century Bardellino was already registered as a fresco painter at the main royal residences of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, reaching the pinnacle of his success there in 1781 with the commission to fresco The Virtues Crowning Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina on the huge ceiling of the Grand Hall of the Palazzo dei Regi Studi in Naples (later to become the Royal Bourbon Museum used in our days as the National Archaeological Museum of Naples). This evidence allowed him to become a master in the technique of fresco painting, boasted therefore at several noble residences, among the interiors of which it is possible to recall those of Cellamare, Ischitella and Spinelli di Fuscaldo. A coloristic lucidity, similar to that which shines in the present, returns in Bardellino's late works, now exhibited in the old apartment of the Reggia di Caserta (Science and the Arts, Peace and War, Innocence, Simplicity, Truth, Day and Night), albeit colder, due to the artist's adoption of the northern European art trends fashionable at the court of the Bourbon consort Maria Carolina, also influencing Corrado Giaquinto. In the present painting, the adoption of Bardellino's own stylistic features is evident, for the faces of the high priest and St. Anne, respectively, in the lucid shot of St. Zachariah and St. Elizabeth signed by the old master and frescoed in the Conversano-Monopoli diocese. Note also his paintings Sacra Famiglia (Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Palazzo della Prefettura), Maria Vergine Bambina con Sant'Anna, Santa Lucia e San Pietro d'Alcantara (Museo Civico di Castel Nuovo, Naples) and Enea ai Campi Elisi (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples), which are similar to the present in compositional structure and figurative style. The subject of the presentation of the Virgin maiden to the temple, much taken up in 18th-century Neapolitan ecclesiastical painting, has numerous specimens that have remained in anonymity of a quality quite similar to the present one, which remains decidedly superior in the characterization of the characters.
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    Height: 65.36 in (166 cm)Width: 59.85 in (152 cm)
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    Pietro Bardellino (1731 - 1806, Italian)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Milan, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2639213033482
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