FINEST 18TH CENTURY ANTIQUE NEOCLASSICAL OIL PAINTING OLD BAROQUE EUROPE 1700s

Description: MASTERFUL 18TH CENTURY ANTIQUE EUROPEAN BAROQUE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS. (CIRCA 1700s). THIS WORK DEPICTS A NEOCLASSICAL BAROQUE SCENE INSPIRED BY MYTHOLOGICAL RELIGIOUS THEMES. AT THE TOP, TWO ETHEREAL FEMALE FIGURES EMERGE FROM THE CLOUDS DRAPED IN FLOWING CLASSICAL GARMENTS, WITH ONE CROWNED BY A CRESCENT MOON- A SYMBOL OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE GODDESS DIANA CELESTIAL DEITY. THEY INTERACT WITH AN EARTHY SCENE BELOW WHERE A SACRIFICIAL ALTAR STANDS ADORNED WITH A LAMB WITH A FLORAL WREATH, A RECURRING SYMBOL OF RITUAL PURITY OR DEVINE OFFERING. THE FOREGROUND SHOWS TWO MALE FIGURES, A YOUNG MAN IN A RED TOGA CLUTCHING HIS CHEST IN AWE OR DEVOTION AND AN OLDER BEARDED MAN IN WHITE ROBES GESTURING TOWARDS THE HEAVENS. THE COMPOSITION IS METICULOUSLY RENDERED WITH PAINSTAKING ATTENTION TO DETAIL. THIS PAINTING ALIGNS WITH 17TH - 18TH CENTURY EUROPE INSPIRED BY CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, ROMANTICISM, WITH ALLEGORICAL STORYTELLING. THIS IS A PROFOUND MASTERPIECE THAT STANDS OUT AMONG THE REST. SIMPLY AMAZING. THERE IS AN OLD TAG WITH THE NUMBER 5046 AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SIGNATURE ON THE REAR STRETCHER BAR. PERHAPS YOU RECOGNIZE THE ARTIST? IT’S OVER 250 YEARS OLD. THE OLD CANVAS HAS BEEN RELINED TO A STIFFER BACKING FOR SUPPORT. THE FRAME IS WELL WORN. PLEASE ENLARGE THE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR A DETAILED CONDITION REPORT. FEEL FREE TO MAKE AN OFFER. MUSEUM INQUIRIES ARE WELCOME. PROVENANCE: PRIVATE ESTATE, PASADENA CALIFORNIA. DIMENSIONS: 31”W x 39”H Baroque painting encompasses a great range of styles, as most important and major painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century, and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque painting. In its most typical manifestations, Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep colour, and intense light and dark shadows, but the classicism of French Baroque painters like Poussin and Dutch genre painters such as Vermeer are also covered by the term, at least in English. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring: Michelangelo, working in the High Renaissance, shows his David composed and still before he battles Goliath; Bernini's Baroque David is caught in the act of hurling the stone at the giant. Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance. Among the greatest painters of the Baroque period are Velázquez, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, and Vermeer. Caravaggio is an heir of the humanist painting of the High Renaissance. His realistic approach to the human figure, painted directly from life and dramatically spotlit against a dark background, shocked his contemporaries and opened a new chapter in the history of painting. Baroque painting often dramatizes scenes using chiaroscuro light effects; this can be seen in works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Le Nain and La Tour. The Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck developed a graceful but imposing portrait style that was very influential, especially in England. The prosperity of 17th century Holland led to an enormous production of art by large numbers of painters who were mostly highly specialized and painted only genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, portraits or history paintings. Technical standards were very high, and Dutch Golden Age painting established a new repertoire of subjects that was very influential until the arrival of Modernism.

Price: 55000 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

End Time: 2025-01-05T01:40:34.000Z

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