17th Century San Giovannino in the Desert Emilian School Painting Oil on Copper

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17th Century San Giovannino in the Desert Emilian School Painting Oil on Copper

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Emilian school, 17th century San Giovannino in the desert Oil on copper, 34 x 27.2 cm Frame 43.5 x 37.5 cm On the back: "Very good original from Posini" In the present painting a boyish Saint John, in addition to holding the traditional processional cross with attached Ecce Agnus Dei banner and accompanying a lamb, Christological prefiguration, escapes any doubt about the object of his attention by pointing directly to the sky, seat of the Trinity. The classical pose is justified in the obsequious respect for Christ, to whom the Baptist is referring; the sweet symmetry that is built with its seat and the gentle wavering of the lamb, which raises the external front leg, generates a happy figurative chiasmus. Even the careful choice of colors focuses the vertical gesture of the Baptist, while a calm sunset falls on the barren vegetation, seat of his hermitage. The original iconographic synthesis that chooses to place a Saint John while still a child in the desert, rather than in the canonical presence of the Virgin and Child when an infant, while in the wild when adult, is a prefiguration of his pastoral activity, established according to evangelical exegesis since origin of the times. This painting collects the deep Emilian figurative brand, characterized by a calm colorism and a figural construction made of sweet brushstrokes juxtaposed in a nuanced way, to return enveloping shades. The present can be compared to the paintings with the same name San Giovannino in the desert made by Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), an established artist daughter of Giovanni Sirani, a pupil of Reni, and Simone Cantarini (1612-1648), precocious teacher of the Bolognese school. With Cantarini it is possible to appreciate stringent affinities in the particular anatomical linearism of the Infant Jesus that stands out in his Holy Family of the Colonna Gallery in Rome: the definition and treatment of the stretched leg, together with the gentle rounded ankle from childhood, testify to the sister Emilian cultural matrix.

Dimensions:
Height: 17.33 in (44 cm)Width: 14.97 in (38 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Copper,Paint,Hand-Painted,Oiled,Painted
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
17th Century
Date of Manufacture:
17th Century
Condition:
Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use. The painting has been cleaned.
Seller Location:
Milan, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU5918226672312