CORRADO GIAQUINTO (Molfetta, 1703 – Naples, 1766) - Holy Family with two little angels (c. 1750-1764)

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  Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 110 × 88 cm. We are grateful to Professor Nicola Spinosa for his help and advice in cataloging this work. Previously unpublished and in excellent condition, this painting is, according to Nicola Spinosa, a work from the late maturity of Corrado Giaquinto, one of the leading representatives of the moderately Rococo-influenced classicism that developed in Italy in the mid-18th century. The composition, identified as the Holy Family with two cherubs, could also correspond, due to its landscape setting—described by Spinosa as a desert with a palm tree in the background—to the theme of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, an evangelical episode alluding to the Holy Family's flight to save the infant Jesus from the massacre ordered by Herod. The work displays a formal and compositional clarity with an evident classical influence, coupled with a still rich, precious, and luminous palette. These characteristics place it in close relation both to the canvases Giaquinto painted in Rome between 1750 and 1753, before his departure for Spain, and to certain Marian compositions painted after his return to Naples in 1762. Nicola Spinosa particularly emphasizes the stylistic affinity of this painting with the Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Ripping in Flight to Egypt) painted for San Luigi di Palazzo in Naples, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, especially in the rendering of the figures of the Virgin, Saint Joseph, and the cherubs, as well as in the treatment of the chromatic surfaces, with their delicate and refined brilliance. A native of Molfetta, Giaquinto initially trained in Naples, studying under Francesco Solimena, and later came into contact in Rome with Sebastiano Conca, also assimilating aspects of the chromatic preciosity of Luca Giordano and Giovan Battista Crosato. This synthesis of compositional classicism, Rococo softness, and chromatic luminosity reached full maturity during his Roman years and continued during his Spanish period in ...
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