Млекопитательница {6203}
Virgin the Breast-feeding
- история:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Humber, in memory of their daughter, Eileen Genevieve.
- автор:
- Рени Г.
- Guido Reni
- место:
- Северная Каролина: музей Худ.
- North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art
- композиция:
- Богородица и Младенец
- Virgin and Child
- композиция:
- In Catholic tradition Mary is the epitome of feminine purity, grace, and beauty.
- Artists had depicted these qualities long before the seventeenth century, but it is the work of Guido Reni that gives the fullest expression to these virtues.
- "Many believed," wrote Reni's biographer in 1686, "... that because of his great devotion, the Virgin deigned to appear before him.... No painter of any century knew how to represent her so utterly beautiful and modest."
- Reni's Madonna and Child is the type of work regarded as the pinnacle of artistic perfection during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- One of Reni's contemporaries remarked that "we paint like mere mortals; he paints like an angel," and the artist's virtuosity is very much in evidence here.
The deep violet background contrasts dramatically with the alabaster flesh of the two figures, endowing them with sculptural volume and weight.
The elegant intimacy and tenderness of the figures are appropriate to the subject and the painting's function as a work intended for private devotion.
- оформление:
- ~1628...30.
- Oil on canvas.
- 914х1143.
- № 55.12.1.
- предмет с изображением:
- гравюра
- gravure
- автор:
- Кориолано Б.
- Bartolomeo Coriolano
- место:
- Вашингтон: гал. Нац.
- Washington: NGA
- оформление:
- 1630.
- Chiaroscuro woodcut.
- № 1943.3.2816.
Рени Г.
- Guido Reni
- место:
- Вашингтон: гал. Нац.
- Washington: NGA
- оформление:
- Etching.
- вариант:
- № 1972.65.31.
- № 1972.65.32.
Салимбени В.
- Ventura Salimbeni
- место:
- Вашингтон: гал. Нац.
- Washington: NGA
- оформление:
- Etching.
- № 1972.65.35.
- файл
- 081_lrg
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http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/european/italian/1600-1815/081_lrg.shtml
