Baroque Jesus Painting By Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 17th Century

This 17th-century Baroque painting, in oil on copper, captures a serene portrayal of the Immaculate Conception, draped in yellow silk robes with accents of green and red. The divine ...

This 18th century Italian painting captures one of the most iconic biblical moments: the Adoration of the Magi. The mysterious travelers kneel in reverence before the Infant Jesus, ...

A pair of Italian baroque paintings of Jesus Christ: - An 18th Century painting that depicts the Holy Family, Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the elderly Saint Joseph, with the An...

This 17th century Italian Baroque painting, executed in oil on copper, depicts the Crucifixion of Christ with remarkable depth and dramatic composition. Christ is shown on the cross...

17th century oil on canvas representation of the "Feeding of the 4,000" of Italian school.

Rare 18th-century Italian painting. Refined oil-on-copper miniature depicting the Virgin Mary, Saint Anne, and the Baby Jesus. The two women are seated on a large gilded throne. At t...

Pierre de Cortonne (in Italian: Pietro da Cortona, whose real name is Pietro Berrettini) (Cortona, November 1, 1596 - Rome, May 16, 1669) is a painter and Italian architect of Bar...

Pietro Bardellino (Italy - Naples, 1732 - 1806), attr., Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus Measurements: with frame, cm L 86 x H 99 x P 8; only the canvas, cm L 78 x H 64 The painting, made in oil on canvas, represents the Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus. Stylistically the work is attributable to Pietro Bardellino (Italy, Naples, 1732 - Naples, 1806), a pupil of Francesco De Mura and considered by critics one of the most gifted and sensitive exponents of the Rococo style in Naples. The canvas represents the Child Jesus, surrounded by flowers in an outdoor setting, while showing the sacred heart. The canvas has a well-balanced color and a strong sweetness of the child’s traits, which with the complicit gesture of the right hand, involves the viewer in the intimate and delicate sharing of the garden in which he sits. The roses, in addition to being a beautiful piece of still life, contribute to enrich the Christological message, being bearers of symbolic meanings. Marian attributes par excellence, are often side by side with Christ, whose thorns foreshadow the Passion. In the canvas, on the top left, two cherubim are observed: among them, according to the Old Testament, is God: the author therefore puts into place an iconographic and iconological hyperbole that amplifies its meaning. The iconographic theme of the Child Jesus with the Sacred Heart in his hand spread between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first of the following century. With the worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church intends to honour the Heart of Jesus Christ, one of the organs symbolizing his humanity, which by intimate union with the Divinity, has the right to worship and love of the Saviour for men, of which His Heart is the symbol. It represents one of the fundamental devotions of Christian life, as it manifests the true face of God, who is prodigal and boundless love. It was the French mystic Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque...