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Baroque Dolci follower - 17th century figure - Virgin in prayer

c.1650

Umbrian-Roman Master (16th-17th century) - Madonna in Prayer. 84 x 58.5 cm unframed, 96 x 70.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame (not signed). Condi...

Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 - Bologna 1642), follower of - Madonna and Child. 91.5 x 108 cm unframed, 134.5 x 150.5 cm with frame. Ancient oil painting on canvas, in a 19th-century ca...

The Virgin In Prayer, 19th Century SASSOFERRATO (1609-1685) Large 19th Century Italian Old Master of the Sassoferrato Madonna in Prayer, oil on canvas. Exceptional quality and cond...

Roman school, late 16th-early 17th century Praying Madonna Oil on canvas, 81 x 69 cm Frame 83 x 95.5 cm A divine whiteness reverberates with vibrant luster on the maphorion of the present Virgin. The palpable iridescence that structures the thin rosaceous garment, woven with the same fresh light, produces a slight rustle when she takes her hands off. The Madonna in fact takes a prayerful pose, opening her palms to underline her fervent ecstatic intention; the white neck is rendered with perishable fullness of pigments, like the hands, perfectly alive, and the very shiny eyes. With fine shrewdness the artist of the present styles the Virgin's hair with thin white ribbons, exacerbating the purity. An evocative light falls gently on the bust, a materialized sign of divine glory. The present can be traced back to the late Mannerist climate that prevailed in the capital after the emanation of the Tridentine council (1545-1563). The late Mannerist licenses that can still be seen there, such as the intense lyricism in the stylistic code adopted by the artist, are innervated in the new basic catechetical intent, which at the end of the century produced a certain figurative rigorism. The present, however, still responds to that extraordinary Roman dynamism that raised the capital to a bulwark for the entire mannerist lesson, matched only by a second artistic center, the Florentine one. The engaging carriage of the Virgin reflects the contemporary examples of Giuseppe Valeriano (1542-1596), a Jesuit painter, returning in the Marriage of the Virgin of the Roman Church of Jesus, as well as in the Madonna of Sorrows in the Recanati Altarpiece, equal ardor. But it is in the Assumption of the Virgin painted in four hands with Scipione Pulzone...