Paintings> 1600 > The Flight into Egypt, oil on canvas, neapolitan school, Italy, second half of the XVII century.
The Flight into Egypt, oil on canvas, neapolitan school, Italy, second half of the XVII century.
Description:Shortly after 1650, Giordano traveled to Rome, Florence, and Venice. He familiarized himself with Pietro da Cortona's works in Rome and Florence.
In Venice, Giordano received his first known commissions for altarpieces and turned in earnest to the Venetian Cinquecento painters whose importance had already been made clear to him by the neo-venetianism then current in Rome and Naples and by paintings, especially those of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640),
in Neapolitan collections.
This devotional work - through the tormented landscape, derived from the Venetian - engages the viewer in the act of devotion, in the emotion of the moment and in the spiritual sentiment.
Mary has turned her eyes to St.Joseph, trying to find comfort in him,
as opposed to the Baby Jesus, facing St. John.
The quality of the head of the Madonna is comparable with the sketch of the 'Head of an angel' preserved in the collection of the Willumsen Museum in Frederikssund, Denmark.
Age:Second half of the XVII century.
Dimensions:25,5 x 33 inc. ; cm. 65x84 cm. without frame
Price: Sold
Item n°: GA 101
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