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Pair of Paintings on Slate The Penitent Magdalene and St. John the Baptist
1600s

Name: Pair of Paintings on Slate The Penitent Magdalene and St. John the Baptist
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$22,440.06

£16,893.93

€19,000

CA$30,912.67

A$34,620.24

CHF 18,064.27

MX$422,871.29

NOK 229,830.10

SEK 216,642.41

DKK 144,630.57

About the Item

Oil on slate. Proposed here are two examples of oil painting on stone, a pictorial genre that at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries i had particular fortune in the Venetian Republic, in its form of oil painting on slate or touchstone. The choice of such a dark stone as a background is not only linked to practical reasons (the proximity of the mines in Brescia and the Brembana Valley), but, as our two works well demonstrate, the emergence of the figures from the dark background into the light also fully responds to the new demands of painting at the time, which, in the climate of the Counter-Reformation, tended to express no longer only the idealized existential certainties of the height of the Renaissance, but also the anxieties and openness to new phases, tending already with Tintoretto toward greater attention to reality and luministic contrasts, and then flow overwhelmingly into the seventeenth-century researches heavily played precisely on the pair contrast light-shadow. The two works presented here well within the production of the Veneto area in the early decades of the 17th century, propose two figures of saints, both hermits, placed against a dark, barely visible naturalistic background. The figure of Magdalene emerges from the darkness, leaning to follow the curve of the stone support; she is depicted turned questioningly toward the darkness, as if in an attitude of listening, her left hand raised and the other resting on the "memento mori "egregiously foreshortened. In front of her a scourge and the jar of ointment. Painted en pendant, Saint John the Baptist is depicted as a youth, with a lamb at his feet, in his hand the astylar cross with the banner "ecce agnus dei," while with his right hand he draws from the fountain of water, recalling the episode that will see him baptize Jesus Christ. In both paintings, the figures stand out strongly and incisively due to the blackness of the slate plaque on which they are depicted. The two paintings, oval in format, are presented in black wooden frames, late 19th century.

Creation Year:
1600s
Dimensions:
Height: 17.33 in (44 cm)Width: 13.19 in (33.5 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Period:
17th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Milan, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU680314526032

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