Roman school of the seventeenth century. "Orla of flowers with scene of Isaac and Jacob". Oil on canvas. Relined.

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  Roman school of the seventeenth century. "Orla of flowers with scene of Isaac and Jacob". Oil on canvas. Relined. Measurements: 59 x 47 cm. This biblical passage is narrated in Genesis 27. In this passage, Isaac was already beginning to suffer from the passage of time and, as a result, his eyesight 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 that moment to weave her plan: with the help of his mother, 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 how Rebecca makes the gesture of silence to her son as long as everything goes as planned. As a good baroque work, it wants to play with the spectator, to make us part of the painting and turn us into accomplices of the crime. In addition to this, the author adds a large curtain to give it that theatrical aspect. We see in this canvas a typical composition of the Baroque period, mainly in the Netherlands and Spain, although the model was also extended to other European schools, as we see here. It is a scheme that combines a garland of flowers, sometimes also of fruits, with a religious representation of devotional type. The idea is to combine the genres of religious painting and still life, seeking a greater sumptuousness and a theatrical sense, almost trompe l'oeil, very much to the taste of Baroque painting. It should be noted that, in this type of compositions, the flowers are not simply a secondary, accessory element, but are worked with the same care, with the same quality as the religious image. In fact, sometimes they even show a more skilled hand, since these works were often the result of the collaboration of a flower painter and another specialized in the figure.
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