Felice Ficherelli Il Riposo

(San Gimignano , 1605 - Firenze , 1660)

Attributed to

Mythological scene depicting Ariadne grieving for Theseus' abandonment, Dionysus consoles her and offers her the crown with the diamonds that will form the Corona Borealis or Constellation of Ariadne. "The work is pervaded by a very subtle sensuality, of Furini-like ancestry are the softness of the complexion of Ariadne and the handmaid. Ariadne, saddened by the abandonment of Theseus, although melancholic, emanates a chastened but voluptuous erotic sense, while she pines for the pain. The approach of the opportunist Dionysus brings out a sum of intentions and feelings among the characters, so as to make it seem that the protagonists are acting and emerging as in a theatrical piece. On the stage with their forms with luminous complexions with the expression of the faces that express inner emotion, with the breadth of the emphatic movements give life to a work that tells itself, embellished by pictorial artifices created by the painter, such as the shadow areas that light up the forms. In all this the painter shows affinity with his contemporaries: Furini Francesco (1603-1641) and Cecco the Brave (1601-1661), his contemporaries." STUDIO ASOR