Giuseppe Sogni (rubbiano, 1795- Milan, 1874), Assumption Of The Virgin

Giuseppe Sogni (Rubbiano, 1795- Milan, 1874)
Assumption of the Virgin
Oil on canvas, cm 46 x 36
With frame, cm 60 x 51, 5
Signed in the lower right: "G. Sogni, 1868"

At the centre of the canvas is depicted the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven escorted by a horde of putti partying. The Virgin is depicted in a white robe and blue mantle that according to the iconography represents transcendence, mystery and the divine. It is the color of the sky and therefore is considered a celestial color. One of the little angels holds the lily, symbol of purity from sin; the white petals symbolize his pure virginal body and the golden anthers the splendor of his soul.
The moment depicted is that of the Assumption of Mary into heaven, one of the dogmas of the Catholic faith according to which Mary, mother of Jesus, immediately after his death ascended to heaven in body and soul. The cult spread immediately from the V century A.D. deeply rooted in popular tradition. 
The work is signed "G. Sogni", or Giuseppe Sogni, painter born in 1975 in Rubbiano, province of Cremona and active in Milan, where he studied at the Accademia di Brera under the aegis of the painter Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850) and the sculptor Camillo Pacetti (1758-1826). Dreams, despite showing a remarkable ability in sculpture, decides to devote himself entirely to painting, especially of historical subject, Among which include works such as Raphael and the Fornarina (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera); the Martyrdom of ss. Gervasio and Protasio and a Giselda and Saladino (Milan, Civica Galleria di arte moderna), taken by the Lombards at the first crusade of Tommaso Grossi, 1827; Colombo who leaves for the Americas in 1828, works that are distinguished by the originality of both compositions and subjects. Also important was his collaboration with the Ca 'Granda of Milan, which sees him as a restorer of the ancient works belonging to the Ospedale Maggiore and as a portraitist of his benefactors. However, they do not lack in the artistic production of religious subjects. Similar to the Immaculate here in analysis is the work Sacred Heart of Jesus with the instruments of the Passion preserved at the Repossi Picture Gallery in Chiari (BS). Both canvases are characterized by the symmetrical setting, where the subject - respectively the Madonna and Christ - are at the center of the composition surrounded by angels that reveal among them a certain assonance in the variety of poses, although in the work under consideration there is a greater dynamism, The Virgin’s ascent to heaven, and The canvas of the Repossi Art Gallery is characterized by a greater sense of stasis and contemplation.
The background of the characters' golden clouds is also the same. The pose of the arms and head of the Madonna portrayed by the Dreams in this canvas has similarities with the Virgin of Pelagio Palagi (1775-1860) present in the antique market. Another work by Sogni with a religious character is Susanna al bagno, now at the Galleria d'arte in Milan that reinterprets the seventeenth-century model of the same subject by Annibale Carracci (1560 - 1609), now in Galleria Doria Pamphilj, taken up following the stay of the Sogni in Rome at the beginning of the thirties of the nineteenth century. His painting skills, which are revealed in the delicate chiaroscuro passages, in the rendering of the incarnate and in the intense expression of the faces, but never exaggerated,  were recognized in Italy, where he participated in numerous exhibitions especially Milanese, as well as abroad: it is included its presence, in fact at the Universal Exhibition of Paris 1855, He participated with a self-portrait (of which there are two versions, in Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, and in Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi) and with the already mentioned Susanna al bagno. Also skilled in portraits where you can find hayezian influences, he also made one for the Emperor Napoleon III (in the Civica raccolta Bertarelli di Milano) He was awarded the medal of St. Helena.

The object is in good condition

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