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Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Flemish, 1502 - 1550)Attributed to
Madonna with book and baby Jesus.
Oil painting on panel
40x30 cm
"Excellent Flemish Renaissance painter who lived in Italy where he was able to appreciate the art of his contemporary Italian painters. He was a great admirer of Raphael, to whom he often he is inspired, as for example in this painting, although substantially he remains an atheist within his own canons and stylistic developments. He made an important contribution to the great Renaissance art in Flanders. Draftsman, painter and publisher of architectural treatises, he was disputed by the most famous characters of the of his time: Charles V, Francis I King of France, Henry VIII of England, Cosimo I dei Medici.In this work the influence of the Italian Renaissance styles is evident.He initiates the passage and transition from the late Gothic conception in the Netherlands to the Renaissance. The writings and treatises of Sebastiano Serlio were an example for him. This painting, simple, probably for a private commission, is inspired in some way by the Madonna del Connestabile by Raphael. In fact, the representation of the Madonna and child is rendered in a real and fluid way, giving naturalness to the scene. He abolishes the landscape background and focuses the figuration on the two characters thus giving more strength to the spiritual meaning. A sad and melancholy harmony transpires and is palpable, at the same time a serenity transmitted by the characters, especially in the gaze of Mary, who reads the prophecy on the death of Jesus, with sweet resignation while the child enjoins her to read by pointing with his finger. The forms are well calibrated and the gestures of the child pointing and of the Madonna who clasps him to the waist in a protective way, make the scene happy and full of harmony. A light that seems to come from a window centers the characters and illuminates the painted clothes in a soft and fluid way. He was an example for all those Dutch Mannerist painters of the second half of the 16th century. 40x30, oil on panel. Provenance: illustrates a family from Catania." ASORstudio
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€ 9.000,00
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