The painting we are looking at is an oil on canvas, measuring 100 x 82 cm without frame and 125 x 110 cm with a beautiful antique frame, depicting a colorful and sweet Madonna and Child. The very harmonious composition is clearly attributable, in terms of style and chromatic delicacy, to the Roman manner and school of the late 17th century.
In this canvas, it is worth noting the artistic expression of a unique painter who specialized, especially in his youth, in paintings depicting portraits of people. Therefore, we are in front of a work created by a talented artist who shows to have well received the refined Italian figurative culture of his illustrious predecessors such as Raphael or Annibale Carracci.
It is useful to remember that the artist's goal, in his paintings, was to link painting, endowed with naturalistic classicism typical of Carracci's style, with the increasingly frequent spread of the Baroque and the ideal and idealized beauty that was spreading especially in the works of Guido Reni or Domenichino.
The light pictorial material, the particular tonality of the bluish colors, the soft colors emerging from a neutral preparation base, the way of highlighting combined with a subject in itself sweet and loving are all characteristics that refer to the best Roman figurative culture.
The sweet and wonderful work in itself breaks away from the standard canons of the time both for the colors, the scene, the objects in the foreground, and also for Saint Joseph who is not together with the other two protagonists, but is in the background although in a context in which his personality seems to be well emphasized and precise.
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Dr. Riccardo Moneghini
Art Historian
