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Oil on canvas Jesus child within garland of flowers 18th century
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Lombard School, 17th century
Christ child with globe within garland of flowers
Oil on canvas, 72 x 61 cm
Framed 90, 5 x 80
The present painting, framed by a sumptuous antique frame, depicts the figure of the Christ Child with the globe within a floral garland.
The Italian evolution of the pictorial genre of the difiori garland, a devotional typology born of the intellectual collaboration between Cardinal Federico Borromeo and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, Lombard art was affected by a gradual diffusion of fiammingian models mainly attributable to two factors: the intensification of economic and commercial relations between Milan and Brussels related to the common Spanish rule and, subsequently, the passion for fiamming art of Cardinal Federico Borromeo
The co-presence of these elements, led in the early 17th century to the diffusion in the local art scene of the genres of landscape and still life, as well as the creation of a new iconografia: the Madonna and Child in a garland of fires. The garland genre then spread widely in the 17th and the first half of the 18th century not only in the Lombard area but also in Flanders and Spain.
The analysis of the pictorial evolution of the fiori garland constitutes a rather recent field of study that builds on an illuminating article by David Freedberg, published in 1981. For Freedberg, adorning a sacred image by means of a garland has not only a mere decorative function but also elevates the object from its earthly nature, emphasizing the importance of its supernatural and devotional function.
Pamela M. Jones states that Borromeo owes the conception of the motif to his adherence to the theological current called, Christian Optimism, according to which nature, and therefore also fires, are one of the manifestations of divine greatness. We also need to look at the custom of adorning religious images with wreaths of fires during processions, in the diffusion in northern Europe of the so-called Besloten Hofjes, or multidimensional compositions in which a statue of the Virgin and Child was decorated by means of fires, trees, and plants created in silk. In essence, the garland seems to incorporate popular, theological, and scIentific aspects of finish-sixteenth-century society, accumulating several factors that together contributed to its diffuseful commercial success in the seventeenth century. The earliest conception of Madonna and Child in the center of a floral garland is the Ambrosiana, attributed to Jan Brueghel with figures by Hendrick van Balen
Particular attention is given to the wreath production of Carlo Antonio Procaccini, a member of one of the most important families of artists of the time, who, in the latter part of his 30-year career, specialized in a curious variant of the genre in which the Virgin and Child are replaced by a fiamming-style landscape and New Testament episodes. This distinctively local declension constitutes a point of contact between Borromeo's invention and the Nordicizing development of Lombard art. From here Lombard painters reworked the garland motif by adding scenes from the gospels, landscapes, and as in our case, the figure of Christ Salvator Mundi inside.
- Dimensions:Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:18th Century
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5918237153072

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