Religious painting the massacre of the innocent, 17th century
Ancient Italian painting of the first half of the seventeenth century. Oil picture on canvas, in the first canvas, depicting high quality copy of the massacre of the innocent by Jacopo Robusti called Tintoretto. The work looks like speculating with respect to the original of the master present in the San Rocco school in Venice. According to the evangelical story Herod the Great, king of Judea, ordered the massacre of children with the aim of killing Jesus, whose birth had been informed by the Magi who came from the East. An Angel warned Giuseppe in a dream by ordering him to escape to Egypt and only after the death of Herod returned to Galilee. The work of excellent pictorial quality characterized by a great dynamism and a wise use of chiaroscuro. Lineaean frame of the sculpted and golden twentieth century, of pleasant decoration, with some signs of time. Painting that has undergone a restoration intervention with partial strength and color recovery in some places (see photo). Overall in good conservative state. Painted light h 112.5 x l 130 cm.
ID: 2102-1747734155-124397