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Circle of Domenico Piola, Madonna and Child with St. Dominic

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Circle of Domenico Piola (Genoa, 1627 - Genoa, April 8, 1703) Madonna and Child with St. Dominic Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm With frame 95 x 83 cm This beautiful 17th-century painting depicts St. Dominic of Guzmán at the feet of the Virgin and Child, the founder of the strict religious order of Dominicans who was particularly active in the fight against the spread of heresies. According to what the sacred scriptures report, with particular reference to the texts of the Dominican Alain de la Rupe, which can be dated around the beginning of the 13th century, during his wanderings aimed at spreading the word of God throughout Europe, St. Dominic was kidnapped by a crew of pirates who took him with them on a ship whose voyage on the open sea was endangered by a sudden gale: at this juncture, the Virgin manifested herself to Dominic, pointing him to the Holy Rosary as the only salvation from shipwreck and death for all of them. The saint communicated that warning to the pirates, they agreed, and immediately the fury of the sea subsided. The pirates were the first members Confraternity of the Rosary, the Virgin Mary's dwelling place on earth. By Our Lady's will, the Rosary was no longer just an instrument of personal salvation, but a weapon of communal prayer. Starting in the late Middle Ages, in fact, the devotion of the holy rosary, perceived as a tool of collective prayer and as a valuable antidote to the spread of heresies, spread very rapidly as far as the landscape of Western Christianity was concerned. Between the 16th and 17th centuries, there were many artists who chose to depict in their works the moment in which Our Lady bestows the rosary on the founder of the Dominican order: we need only think of the celebrated Madonna of the Rosary executed by Lorenzo Lotto for the municipal palace of Cingoli or Ludovico Carracci's Madonna and Child with St. Dominic in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna. This painting with its vivid colors and dynamic, swirling composition could be ascribed to a member of the circle of the celebrated Genoese artist Domenico Piola (1627-1703): from Piola, the painter in question seems to inherit various expedients both technical and iconographic: the gentle features of the Child are reminiscent of those of the shed of putti in the Bacchus and Satyrs in the museum of the Ligustica Academy in Genoa, while the painting's ascending composition seems to refer directly to that of the Madonna and St. Simon Stok in the church of San Pietro in Savona or to that of the Madonna and Child Jesus and St. Gaetano di Thiene in the Genoese church of San Giorgio. The relationship of moving intimacy and complicity between the Virgin and the child is a fact that unites this painting with many of the most famous pieces in Domenico Piola's production: we need only think of the Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare in the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 24.81 in (63 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    76x63 cmPrice: $8,324
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  • Circle Of:
    Domenico Piola the Elder (1627 - 1703, Italian)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Milan, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2639215496292

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