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Circle of Carlo Cignani, Allegory of CharityXVII Century
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Circle of Carlo Cignani (Bologna, 1628 - Forlì, 1719)
Allegory of Charity, by Nicola Vaccaro (Naples, 1640 - 1709)
Oil on canvas, 119 x 93 cm
Framed, 137 x 110 cm
Bologna-born painter Carlo Cignani, trained under Giovanni Battista del Cairo and Francesco Albani, was strongly influenced by the most celebrated Emilian painters active in his century and the one before, namely Annibale Carracci, Correggio and, for perspective from below as well as for the use of color, Melozzo da Forlì. After the first preriod of his training spent mostly in the Bolognese sphere, in the early 1760s Cignani moved to Rome, where his Baroque-style works were widely appreciated and where he gained the title of prince of the Accademia di San Luca. The artist's late mature years were spent between Bologna, his hometown, and Parma. He spent his last period in Forli, partly for the realization of his great masterpiece, the fresco on the dome of the Madonna del Fuoco chapel in the Cathedral. In the Pinacoteca civica in Forli, however, the painting of the Coronation of Saint Rose and a Self-Portrait can be seen. His, but probably with the help of his son Felice Cignani, is the Virgin and Saint Philip Neri, in the same picture gallery. Then there is L'Aurora che vola verso l'azzurro per portare al mondo la luce e la vita (1672-1674), in the Palazzo Albicini, also in Forlì: the Aurora represents Cignani's highly refined formal idealism to its highest degree, resulting in one of the finest figurative inventions of seventeenth-century Italian art.
In this fine painting most likely executed between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century, the artist, who takes from Cignani the monumentality of the figures and the classicism of Carracci's matrix that distinguishes the parable of development of seventeenth-century Bolognese painting, takes up a composition conceived around the 1770s by the Neapolitan artist Nicola Vaccaro. In Vaccaro's Allegory of Charity, currently housed at the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Basilicata in Matera, as per tradition, Charity is depicted as a young maiden caring for three children. In his famous Iconologia, a crucial 1603 text, Ripa describes Charity as a "woman clothed in a red dress" who "will hold in her left arm a Child, to whom she gives milk, and two others will be joking at her feet." The three children, according to this author, "show that although Charity is one virtue, it nevertheless has threefold power."
- Creation Year:XVII Century
- Dimensions:Height: 46.86 in (119 cm)Width: 36.62 in (93 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:119x93 Price: $9,705
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- Circle Of:Carlo Cignani (1628 - 1719, Italian)
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- Gallery Location:Milan, IT
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