17th century, Emilian school

17th century, Emilian school

Rest during the flight to Egypt

Oil on canvas, cm 42 x 33

Frame cm 65 x 55 

This Holy Family, with its exemplary composition in the form of a rest from flight to Egypt, is set within a shady bucolic backdrop, a natural and silent scenographic fifth. Saint Joseph, shown in a relaxed mood, seems to trace in the figure the parallel and suggestive half column caressed by a ray of sunshine, which penetrates into the shadowy wooded idyll. 

The group in the foreground of the Virgin with the Child and Saint Giovannino is framed in a pyramid scheme that resolves the affectionate embrace of the Mother to the older child and the gestuality linked to both everyday life, in the legs stretched on the ground of Our Lady or in the thundering pose of the Infant Jesus, both to the sacredness in the prayerful pose of the little Baptist.

The canvas, with its typical dimensions linked to private devotion, recognizes in the composition and stylistic comparisons the hand of an Emilian painter active in the first half of the seventeenth century, aware of the contemporary pictorial productions and influenced by works such as Ippolito Scarsella, called the Scarsellino (1550-1620), rather than by the examples of Albani and Domenichino.

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