Offered by Antichità Castelbarco
Seventeenth-century Tuscan painter
Angel of the Annunciation
Oil on canvas
52 x 74.5 cm Framed 94 x 71 cm
The work on offer, characterised by a refined sacredness, depicts the Archangel Gabriel in the act of delivering the supreme announcement to the Virgin Mary, offering her the canonical white lilies, symbol of purity and chastity.
It is a splendid subject, executed with stylistic refinement, probably commissioned for private use and therefore particularly pleasing and easy to place.
The Angel takes the form of a young man with delicate features, with his finger raised as if to emphasise his revelation, wrapped in a bright red drape and a white robe, with a dark background that emphasises the movements of the figure and the gesture of his hand.
The work, characterised by fluid, vaporous brushstrokes and a luminism that is not overly marked, denotes a profane attention to iconography and compositional methods still common in late Mannerist Tuscan painting, an extraordinarily happy artistic period which, especially at the turn of the century, saw an impressive succession of leading artistic personalities.
In this case, although it is difficult to attribute the work to a particular name, the stylistic characteristics suggest that it was painted by a master of the Florentine school, active in the 17th century.
The composition is characterised by intense colours and a particularly lively chiaroscuro effect, emphasised by the intense red of the angel's clothes and the glow that illuminates the angel from the front. Good condition.
Complete with a beautiful antique box frame. In wood painted to imitate marble.
Delevery information :
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