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Oronzo Malinconico (Napoli, 1661 - 1709)
Penitent Magdalene, 17th century
Oil painting on canvas
H 180x121 cm, in frame 195x145 cm
Expert opinion by Professor Claudio Strinati: «The painting derives from a well-known prototype of the very Guercino milieuimitated throughout the seventeenth century and beyond in the various schools of Italy. Here the figureis entire and the work is enriched by a valuable Still Life at the foot of < span style="background-color: hsl(var(--bs-white)); color: var(--bs-card-color); font-size: var(--bs-body-font-size); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">Santa. The painting is conducted with a very correct design and appears wellhighlighted in the “tenebrist” fashion that radiates from the Venetian environment
also in southern Italy during the second half of the seventeenth century. Precisely for this reason I refer the painting to the interesting and rare painter Neapolitan Oronzo Malinconico, member of the well-known family of artists almost all gravitating in Luca Giordano's circle.
This stylistic reference would seem justified by interesting and vivid < span style="background-color: hsl(var(--bs-white)); color: var(--bs-card-color); font-size: var(--bs-body-font-size); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">analogies found for our painting in the few certain works of this artist, very well known in his time, and then entered a kind of coneof shadow from which it has begun to re-emerge in recent times thanks to the studies of authoritative specialists of the period.
The Guercino component, evident in our painting, is very clear also in some of Oronzo's crucial works as can be seen in the cycle of tele performed by him for the Cappella d'Avalos in Montesarchio, presumably between the eighth and ninth decades of the seventeenth century. This observation therefore leads us to also date the painting in question hereat the same moment.
You can see the same robust attitude and the same drafting mastery that < span style="background-color: hsl(var(--bs-white)); color: var(--bs-card-color); font-size: var(--bs-body-font-size); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">they also induce a visual effect of sad and introverted meditation like applies to the depicted character.
The state of conservation is good.
The state of conservation is good.
Yours faithfully,
Claudio Strinati»< /div>
€ 8.000,00
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