Roman school of the 17th century. "Orla de flores con escena de Isaac y Jacob" (Flower border with scene of Isaac and Jacob). Oil on canvas. Re-draw

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  Roman school of the 17th century. "Orla de flores con escena de Isaac y Jacob" (Flower border with scene of Isaac and Jacob). Oil on canvas. Re-drawn. Measurements: 59 x 47 cm. This biblical passage is narrated in Genesis 27. In this one, Isaac was already beginning to suffer the passage of time and, as a result of it, his sight began to fail him. On the other hand, together with his wife Rebecca, he had two sons: Esau, the elder, and Jacob, the younger. Isaac, seeing that death was stalking him, decided to bless Esau so that he could keep everything, but first he asked him to go hunting. Rebekah took advantage of this moment to weave her plan: with her mother's help, Jacob dressed in his brother's clothes, brought food to his father, and covered his arm with a sheepskin to imitate his brother's abundant hair. In this way he induced Isaac, old and blind, to mistake him for Esau. In the painting we see the climax of the story, including Rebecca's gesture to her son to keep quiet so that everything would go according to plan. As a good baroque work, it wants to play with the spectator, to make us part of the painting and turn us into accomplices in the crime. In addition to this, the author adds a large curtain to give it a theatrical aspect. In this canvas we see a composition typical of the Baroque period, mainly in the Netherlands and Spain, although the model also extended to other European schools, as we see here. It is a scheme that combines a garland of flowers, sometimes also of fruit, with a religious representation of a devotional type. The idea is to combine the genres of religious painting and still life, seeking greater sumptuousness and a theatrical, almost trompe l'oeil-like sense, very much to the taste of Baroque painting. It should be noted that in this type of composition the flowers are not simply a secondary, accessory element, but are worked with the same care and quality as the religious image. In fact, they sometimes even reveal a more skilful hand, as these works were often the result of the collaboration of a flower painter and a painter specialising in the figure.
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