Auction 16
By Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
Dec 19, 2020
Viale Africa, 12 - 95129 Catania, Italy
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Felice Ficherelli, said "The Rest" (San Gimignano 1605-Florence 1660), allegedly by70x105 Oil ...

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Auction took place on Dec 19, 2020 at Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
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Felice Ficherelli, said "The Rest" (San Gimignano 1605-Florence 1660), allegedly by70x105 Oil painting on canvas, 90x125 frame. Mythological scene, Arianna saddened by the abandonment of Perseus, Dionysus consoles and offers the crown with diamonds that form the constellation Corona Borealis or Ariadne. "The work is pervaded by a subtle sensuality, ancestry furiniana are the skin's softness and Handmaid's Arianna. Arianna saddened by the departure of Theseus although melancholy exudes a chastened but voluptuous erotic sense, but yearns for pain. the appropinguarsi opportunist Dionysus brings forth a summary of the intentions and feelings of the characters, is to make it appear that the actors recite and emerge as a play. on the scene with their forms from the luminous complexion with the expressed of the faces that express inner emotion, with the amplitude by emphatic movements give life to a work that tells itself, enhanced by artifices pictorial created by the painter, as the shadow areas that ignite the shapes of light. in all this the painter shows affinities with his contemporaries: Furini Francesco (1603-1641) and Cecco Bravo (1601-1661), his age. "STUDIO ASOR

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