Remarkable Italian School Of The XVIIIth Madonna Of The Goldfinch Ignaz Stern (att.)

Attributed to Ignaz Stern, Ignazio Stella (Mauerkirchen 1679 - Rome 1748) Madonna del Cardellino Olio on canvas Remarkable oil on canvas depicting the Virgin with two cherubs. This Italian school with an interesting format is distinguished by the life it translates through this bird held at the end of this string. The work on the complexions is of quality as well as the looks bringing a lot of grace to the whole. This quality piece is well framed. The work in question shows the Stern's debts to Bolognese culture, in this particular case to Elisabetta Sirani, whose Bimbo she captures. Moved from his native Bavaria to Italy, Ignaz Stern first stayed in Emilia-Romagna, where he was a pupil of Carlo Cignani in Bologna, then in Rome. In 1713 he moved to Forlì, where he devoted himself both to religious altar painting and to easel painting for private commissions. In 1724, Stern returned to Rome, where his art was distinguished by a refined reinterpretation of the Emilian school of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, drawing inspiration from Correggio and Reni, and enriching these Emilian suggestions by drawing inspiration from the elegant Roman examples of Rococo painting promoted by Sebastiano Conca,