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  • Italian school 17th century, Vanitas
  • Italian school 17th century, Vanitas
  • Italian school 17th century, Vanitas
Italian school 17th century, Vanitas

2500 €


Oil painting on canvas depicting Vanitas, Italian school of the first half of the 17th century. This interesting work depicting Vanitas is characterized by a strong chiaroscuro contrast, which highlights the shape of the skull. The artist is undoubtedly influenced by the style of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called Guercino, particularly in the period in which the original artist of Cento seems to approach the current Caravaggesca of the early 17th century. In particular, similarities can be seen with a work depicting the same subject auctioned by Christie’s on 01/05/2019, lot 20. The theme of Vanitas has always been associated with that of the mirror, the object that reflects the image is that it has a reference to contemplation and narcissism. The Latin expression "vanitas vanitatum", "vanity of vanities", taken from the Bible (Ecclesiastes, 1), comes from "vanus", literally "empty", "caducous" and, in the pictorial field, uses the concept of still life characterized by the presence of objects or symbolic indicators that allude to the precariousness of existence, the inexorability of the passage of time, the ephemeral nature of worldly goods. It is an iconography that at the beginning has moralizing finality, it invites to abandon the pleasures and the venal desires in order to take care of the eternal salvation, and that subsequently, during the seventeenth century baroque, it will assume ambiguous characteristics, Yes, to sing the transience of life, whatever it may be, but at the same time, given its fragile nature, to grasp the day before eternity comes into being. The work is in good conservation with some restoration on the dark background and without frame. Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm
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Italian school 17th century, Vanitas

Italian school 17th century, Vanitas

Oil painting on canvas depicting Vanitas, Italian school of the first half of the 17th century. This interesting work depicting Vanitas is characterized by a strong chiaroscuro contrast, which highlights the shape of the skull. The artist is undoubtedly influenced by the vanitas vanitatum", "vanity of vanities", taken from the Bible (Ecclesiastes, 1), comes from "vanus", literally "empty", "caducous" and, in the pictorial field, uses the concept of still life characterized by the presence of objects or symbolic indicators that allude to the precariousness of existence, the inexorability of the passage of time, the ephemeral nature of worldly goods. It is an iconography that at the beginning has moralizing finality, it invites to abandon the pleasures and the venal desires in order to take care of the eternal salvation, and that subsequently, during the seventeenth century baroque, it will assume ambiguous characteristics, Yes, to sing the transience of life, whatever it may be, but at the same time, given its fragile nature, to grasp the day before eternity comes into being. The work is in good conservation with some restoration on the dark background and without frame. Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm
17th Century Neapolitan School, Allegory Of Charity

17th Century Neapolitan School, Allegory Of Charity

Oil painting on canvas, depicting the Allegory of Charity, Neapolitan school of the first half of the 17th century. Charity is depicted here as a woman dressed in popular clothes who feeds some children, through the gesture of breastfeeding, inherent in the iconography of the scene, while behind the woman a fire burns, a symbol of the ardor necessary to practice charity. The work, most likely executed in the first decades of the seventeenth century, is part of the Neapolitan Baroque painting, developed during the seventeenth century, in particular interesting stylistic analogies are recognizable with works by Massimo Stanzione (Frattamaggiore, 1585 - Naples , 1656), one of the most important exponents of the Neapolitan school of the seventeenth century, which combined the influence of Guido Reni's Emilian painting with Caravaggesque tenebrism. Dimensions: Cm 95 x 135 without frame Cm 110 x 155 with frame
Anthoni Schoonjans, Portrait of a singer

Anthoni Schoonjans, Portrait of a singer

Oil painting on canvas depicting Portrait of a Young Singer, attributed to Anthoni Schoonjans (1655 - 1726). The subject effigy, he shows himself to the public with the hairThe Concert" in the private collection, where the model for the central figure of the painting appears to be the same as our beautiful canvas. The painting is in good conservative condition, with some light restorations scattered between the singer's farsetto and on the light background of the work. 20th century gilded wood frame. Dimensions: 106 x 79 without frame 120 x 93 with frame
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 - 1747), Pastoral scene

Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 - 1747), Pastoral scene

Oil painting on canvas, depicting Pastoral Scene, attributed to Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 - 1747). In this beautiful painting, the painter pauses to describe a pastoral scene with meticulous attention. The work depicts four shepherdesses, probably the guardian nymphs of the Goat Amalthea, who nursed infant Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida on the island of Crete, in a wooded landscape. Dimensions: 66 x 58 without frame Conditions: The work is in excellent condition, with a 19th century frame.
Flemish school 17th century, The Virgin and Child surrounded by a round of cherubs and angel musicians

Flemish school 17th century, The Virgin and Child surrounded by a round of cherubs and angel musicians

Oil painting on panel, depicting Madonna with child surrounded by a circle of putti and musician angels, Flemish school of the seventeenth century. This painting of extraordinary quality, full of charm and tender humanity, depicts cherubs dancing in a circle, while angels play musical instruments, in honor of the birth of Christ. The author is undoubtedly to be found in the circle of Flanders painters active during the first half of the seventeenth century. Dimensions: 85 x 57 cm without frame 103 x 75 cm with frame