Large Painting Antique Annunciation Oil on Canvas 17 Century Old Master Art

  
Large Painting Antique Annunciation Oil on Canvas 17 Century Old Master Art. The description of this item has been automatically translated. Girolamo Bonini, known as Anconitano (Ancona, circa 1600 - Bologna 1680).

Annunciation (or Madonna del Bell'Angelo). Framed 134 x 108 cm.

Work accompanied by the expertise of Prof. The complete details of this work can be consulted directly from the following - LINKS. The work, certainly commissioned as an object of private devotion, shows the Announcement to the Virgin Mary, an evangelical episode set here on the two figures portrayed in the foreground, the Archangel Gabriel with spread wings, portrait of an unearthly beauty, and the Virgin; L. A we see here portrayed absorbed in reading a prayer book with her eyes humbly turned downwards as a sign of devotion, while a small cherub hands her white lilies, a symbol of purity and chastity.

In the upper part of the composition the austere image of God the Father, with the dove radiated with light, emblem of the Holy Spirit, surrounded by a flock of angels fluttering among the clouds full of intense flashes and plays of light, in full Baroque style. It should also be noted that the image of the Savior's mother in a delicately devout attitude, with the yellow veil, the large blue mantle and the usual modest red dress from which the edges of the white shirt protrude, should be interpreted as a sort of tender allegory of sacred love. The painting in question is an interesting replica with variations of the composition commissioned from Francesco Albani for the Fioravanti chapel, in the ancient church of S. Bartolomeo in Bologna, inaugurated in 1632, also known as the'Madonna del Bell'Angelo', thanks to the dazzling beauty of the announcing angel source.

Returning to our representation, its paternity is therefore to be attributed to a talented pupil of Albani who was able, like the master, to give us a truly masterful composition, knowing how to mix the naturalistic lesson of the Carracci with the rounded lines and lively movement of the Roman Baroque poetry. Presumably originally commissioned to decorate the walls of a noble chapel, it is possible to identify its author in. Girolamo Bonini known as Anconetano, Ancona c. A little-known but highly talented artist, mainly active in Bologna, but also in Rome and Venice. In the City of the Two Towers he participated in the frescoes of the Sala Farnese in the Palazzo Comunale, where under the direction of Carlo Cignani he painted together with the no less talented Lorenzo Pasinelli, Luigi Scaramuccia and Giovanni Maria Bibbiena.

Compositions which, like the painting in question, are characterized by an irrepressible and captivating vivacity up to the achievement of a combination of luministic effects and warm colors, inspired by the paintings of the master Albani but already diluted towards softer cadences now tending towards rococo. If you would like to see this or other works in person, we will be happy to welcome you to our new gallery in Riva del Garda, in Viale Giuseppe Canella 18. We are waiting for you! The work, certainly commissioned as an object of private devotion, shows the Announcement to the Virgin Mary, an evangelical episode set here on the two figures portrayed in the foreground, the Archangel Gabriel with spread wings, portrait of an unearthly beauty, and the Virgin; La we see here portrayed absorbed in reading a prayer book with her eyes humbly turned downwards as a sign of devotion, while a small cherub hands her white lilies, a symbol of purity and chastity.

Bartolomeo in Bologna, inaugurated in 1632, also known as the'Madonna del Bell'Angelo', thanks to the dazzling beauty of the announcing angel. Girolamo Bonini, detto Anconitano Ancona, circa 1600 - Bologna 1.