Pieter Coecke van Aelst

(Flemish, 1502 - 1550)

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"Excellent Renaissance painter Flemish lived in Italy where she was able to appreciate the art of her contemporary Italian painters. It was a great admirer of Raphael, who often inspires, such as in this painting, albeit substantially remains an atheist within canons And its own stylistic developments. He made an important contribution to the great Renaissance art in Flanders. Designer, painter and publisher of architecture of architecture was disputed by the most famous characters of his time: Carlo V, Francesco I King of France, Enrico VIII D ' England, Cosimo I of the doctors. In this work the influence of Italian Renaissance modes is evident. He starts in the Netherlands the passage and transition from the late Gothic conception to the Renaissance one. The writings and treaties of Sebastiano Serlio were for example. This painting, simple, probably for a private client, inspires somehow to the Madonna of the Connestable by Raphael. Infat Ti, the representation of the Madonna and the Child is made in a real and fluid way, giving naturalness to the scene. He abolishes the landscape backfloor and focuses the figuration on the two characters giving so much strength to the spiritual meaning. Shorts and it is palpable a mesta and melancholy harmony, at the same time a serenity broadcast by the characters, especially in the gaze of Mary, who reads the prophecy on the death of Jesus, with a sweet resignation while the child joins her reading pointing with his finger. The forms are well calibrated and the gesture of the child indicating and the Madonna who holds him to life in a protective way, the happy and redundant scene of harmony. A light that seems to come from a window focuses the characters and illuminates painted clothes in a soft and fluid way. It was example for all those duties-keepers of the second half of 500. 40x30, Oil paint on table. Provenance: illustrated Catanese family." ASARSTUDIO