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18th Century Madonna with Child Adored by Two Saints Paintings Oil on Canvas
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Giovanni Giacomo Figari (Desenzano del Garda, 1739-1809)
Madonna and Child adored by San Francesco di Paola and San Gregorio Magno
(About 1765)
(2) Oil on panel, 41 x 22.5 - with frame 46.7 x 27.5 x 3.2 cm
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The softly collected and intimate dimension suggested by the present pair of paintings underlines, together with the saints appearing in adoration, the totally private dimension of the order. The saints chosen at the feet of the Madonna and Child are in fact Francesco di Paola and Gregorio Magno, immediately recognizable by the wise features, by the Franciscan habit and by the crosier supported by a putto, the other by the triple crown placed on the ground as a sign of respect. Most likely made as ex votos, as a tribute to the patrons or as preparatory models for two altarpieces, if the saints were to reflect their names, the paintings are offered for specular and meditated composition. An inflamed colorism lights up the veils of the Madonna, enhancing their prominent position with respect to the saint in her presence, and warming the remaining part of the composition with sweet intimacy.
The compositional balance, the quality of the drawing and the plastic consistency of the drapery allow the painter's hand to be brought closer to the sphere of Giambettino Cignaroli (1706-1770), a Venetian painter, working in different cities in northern Italy. He was influenced by Ludovico Dorigny, Antonio Balestra and Giovan Battista Tiepolo and in the middle period of his activity he studied the production of Veronese and Titian. Observing the painting in question we note the composed and decorous tone, extraneous to excessive virtuosity, even balanced. Going back to the Baroque tradition, the sacred theme is treated with a softened and persuasive pathetism, in which everything is well calibrated and measured. The canvases are characterized by the same setting that sees the ostentation of the Child to the kneeling saint, for the presence of the fluttering putto heads and for the clouds over which the characters seem to be circling.
More precisely, we can attribute the pair of paintings to Giovanni Giacomo Figari (1739-1809), a pupil of Cignaroli and a rising star in the Brescia-Verona area. Little or nothing is known of the beginnings of Figari, even if we find works in the Mantuan environment but above all in that of south-western Trentino. Worthy of note is the emblematic canvas depicting the Washing of the Feet (in the church of San Floriano in Storo, Trento) which is a demonstration of the qualitative leap that the painter made moving from Mantua to more northern territories. As in the works in question, we see almost pastel colors which are a counterpoint to bright ranges of color. Not far from Storo, also in Tavodo (province of Trento), we find works such as the large altarpiece depicting the Assumption of the Virgin, where the neoclassical road that the Figari was about to take is clear, which begins to deviate from the style of works such as those taken into consideration, which analyzing the painter's movements and his stylistic turning points, should be placed around 1765.
- Dimensions:Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)Width: 11.03 in (28 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
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- Date of Manufacture:1765
- Condition:Refinished. Wear consistent with age and use. The painting has been cleaned.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5918227835212
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