Auction 26
By Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
Dec 11, 2021
Viale Africa, 12 - 95129 Catania, Italy
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LOT 7:

Bottega Antonelliana ©
Sant'Anna, Madonna and child, gold background.

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40,000
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Sant'Anna, Madonna and child, gold background.
Late 15th century / Early 16th century
Technique:
Oil painting on wood
Dimensions:
100x117 cm
The table in question shows the figure of St. Anne, majestic in her royalty, with the Virgin Mary of the largest dimensions modest, supported by the mother's left knee. The infant Jesus, placed in the central part of the composition, while demonstrating a certain formal rigidity, demonstrates greater dynamism conferred by the innocence of those movements that make him in the image and likeness of every other man, but with the arduous task of the destiny of humanity. The child of the advent is here conceived as a creature aware of the raw fate that awaits him; he is in fact represented with a swollen belly, prefiguration of martyrdom on the cross. & nbsp;
It is clear within the composition the attempt to introduce the three figures in a space defined by the geometries of the throne, placed frontally in the scene and decorated, along the central area, by a tapestry with phytomorphic motifs. In the middle of this royal seat, the figures of Saint Anne stand out, composing a single block of sculpture, with an eloquent expression; the Virgin Mary, delicately supported by the tapered maternal fingers and, in the center, the Savior, by the gaze turned to the Virgin's mother.
Some stylistic references, such as the paper mantle of Sant'Anna, the woody restitution of the fingers of the hand, allow the table to be assigned to the production of a workshop in the Messina area - certainly imbued with stylistic features post-antonelleschi - in a chronological span that oscillates between the eighth / ninth decade of the fifteenth century and & nbsp; the first years of the following century. & nbsp;
painting is to be assigned to an unknown master of Antonelliana's workshop, active between 1479 and 1530.

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