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Great Italian Fresco Early 1700s Dominican Fathers by Francesco Malcotto

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Monumental early 18th-century Italian fresco depicting Dominican Friars by Francesco Malcotto, who made this painting for Milan, for the Renaissance basilica Santa Maria delle Grazie, which is the place where Leonardo Da Vinci painted his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Large tear depicting 15 Dominican fathers arranged in two rows, the first genuflected and the second bystander. In the foreground are a dog with a torch in its mouth, an attribute of St. Dominic and the monastic order, two triremes, one of them reclining enigmatically, and a book. The friars depicted in skillfully shaded and juxtaposed variations of color tones are projected in the very foreground with the characteristic tonsure, white robe and the black cloak, two bishops with miters on the left and in the foreground two popes wearing mozzettas, Innocent V and Pius V. The author of the painting is Francesco Malcotto, who made this pictorial complex for the back wall of the apse of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. In the first decades of the eighteenth century, the decoration of the apse was conceived in a unified manner by placing on the back wall the great Resurrection of Christ by Melchiorre Gherardini flanked by two frescoes depicting saints of the Dominican order, distributed on several levels in the act of worshiping the deity in the center. AA.VV. Bibliography. S.M. delle Grazie, Milan 1983, pp. 177-179. This decoration was removed in its entirety during the 1935-1937 renovation. There is not much information about Francesco Malcotto other than the well-known frescoes of Dominican saints in Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan, except that he worked in the Gallarati Scotti palace also in Milan and at the convent of San Domenico in Cremona. The tearing technique involves detaching only the layer of the fresco color from the wall using animal glues placed on the canvas of the fresco surface to be torn off, which once detached is placed on the canvas of the new support. The tear-off method allows the original sinopia to be recovered if it exists. In the operation, deeper layers of color are often lost with the consequent decrease in the coloristic intensity of the pictorial piece, which, when applied on the new support, ends up losing the original characteristics of painting conducted on plaster giving a more delicate appearance and more muted colors. This monumental antique painting from a famous Milanese church measures 223 x 267 cm, comes from a private collection in Lombardy and is in good conservation condition. The work is shipped from Italy, according to current law the export of an antique painting is only possible with a certificate of free movement, Belle Arti issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture, to obtain this export request takes a couple of months, to be added to the shipping time.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 87.8 in (223 cm)Width: 105.12 in (267 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
  • Style:
    Baroque (In the Style Of)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1700 about
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Milano, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: a13201stDibs: LU2160342032482

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