Attributed to FRANCESO SOLIMENA (Italy, 1657 - 1747). "Madonna of the Rosary". Oil on canvas. Re-lined

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  Attributed to FRANCESO SOLIMENA (Italy, 1657 - 1747). "Madonna of the Rosary". Oil on canvas. Re-lined Size: 74 x 61 cm. The work represents the Virgin holding a scapular, seated on the clouds with the Child blessing. Surrounded by angels, the main characters are arranged in the center of the composition in a triangular shape, a feature that allows an easy reading of the piece. In the lower zone, we can appreciate the presence of three figures that represent the animas of purgatory, specifically the men Dimas, gestas, together with the anima sola, located on the right. The work presents similarities, as much in composition, as in the invoice, with several works of the artist Francesco Solimena, as for example to The painting of Santo Domingo's church, Sessa Aurunca, in Campania, or the work "Madonna del Rosario coi Santi Domenico e rosa da lima", of 1755, that is in the diocesan museum of Naples. For its formal characteristics we can relate this work to the hand of Francesco Solimena, Italian painter of the late Baroque, main representative of the Neapolitan school of the first half of the eighteenth century. Francesco Solimena trained with his father, also a painter, and developed his career in Naples, where he settled in 1674. There he furthered his training with De Maria, in whose workshop he approached the most advanced baroque of Cortona, Lanfranco, Preti and Giordano. Already in his early works we can appreciate a clear affiliation to the Roman Baroque, as well as to the most recent Neapolitan pictorial tradition. Later, seeking to develop an alternative to Giordano's fanciful language, Solimena approached the more tenebrous art of Mattia Preti, insisting on greater plasticity. In this way, the shading that characterizes his figures will begin to appear in his work. Soon he will become the visible head of the Neapolitan school and, later, he will be influenced by the classicism of Maratta, which will lead him to seek a greater intensity in the drawing, with academic accents. Works by Solimena are currently held in the Prado Museum, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan in New York, the National Gallery in London and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among other public and private collections around the world.
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