Attributed to CORRADO GIAQUINTO (Italy, 1703 - 1765/66). "Apparition of Christ to Santa Catalina de Siena". Oil on canvas. Reengineered. 19th century

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  Attributed to CORRADO GIAQUINTO (Italy, 1703 - 1765/66). "Apparition of Christ to Santa Catalina de Siena". Oil on canvas. Reengineered. 19th century frame. Measurements: 29 x 21 cm; 44 x 35 cm (frame). Due to its formal characteristics, the present work is attributed to Corrado Giaquinto, an Italian painter of the 18th century, considered to be the maximum representative of Rococo painting in Rome at the time. Due to his compositional mastery and his masterful use of color, the Italian artist became a point of reference for several generations of Spanish painters. We can appreciate how the saint, dressed in her characteristic Dominican habit, kneels before the vision of the risen Christ. The maximum representative of Rococo painting in Rome in the first half of the 18th century, Giaquinto's work was a point of reference for several generations of Spanish painters. Appointed chamber painter to Ferdinand VI in 1753, until 1762, he was also artistic director of the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Barbara and general director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. His language, which starts from rococo to evolve in an increasingly classical sense, is characterized by its great scenographic sense and its chromatic subtleties of extraordinary beauty. Here these two features are clearly evident; the composition is totally theatrical, with the clarity that defends classicism combined with the elegant and graceful dynamism of rococo. The stage is organized in depth, playing with the position of the cumulus clouds and looking for the naturalistic representation of the space, with a scenographic sense inherited from the baroque. Giaquinto's is a rococo of classical influence, and his works will increasingly denote a more solid classicism: compositions of greater spatial clarity, as we see here, populated by solemn figures of lively gestures. However, this work is related to Giaquinto also because of the subject, which can be directly related to the work by his hand entitled "The Holy Trinity, the Virgin and Saints", painted between 1755 and 1756 and currently preserved in the Prado Museum. In this work of the master changes the format, landscape, to house a larger number of figures: Saints John, the Fathers of the Church and several other saints. In addition, in Giaquinto's work Jesus and God the Father appear crowning the Virgin, a detail that is omitted here. However, even the composition of the oil painting presented here denotes knowledge of Giaquinto's work, with the same closed arched structure at the top, the gradation of light, the golden light at the top, etc. Giaquinto's "The Holy Trinity, the Virgin and Saints" is a sketch for the dome of the Royal Chapel in the New Palace in Madrid.
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