Onorio Marinari (florence, 3 October 1627 - Florence, 3 January 1715), Baby Jesus With Bouquet

Onorio Marinari (Florence, 3 October 1627 - Florence, 3 January 1715)

Baby Jesus with bouquet of flowers

Oil on canvas, cm 32 x 40

With frame, cm 58 x 51

Son of the painter Sigismondo Marinari, but also cousin and pupil of Carlo Dolci (Florence, 1616-1687), together with Agnese Dolci, he took up the legacy of the master, carrying on his school for a period. He worked mainly in Florence for Florentine and Tuscan clients, but he did not only work as a painter. He was also a leading intellectual in the field of science: for example, he published an extraordinarily successful astronomy essay entitled Factory and use of the universal astronomical ring instrument to outline solar orifices. The first scholars to present the figure and activity of Onorio Marinari are Pellegrino Orlandi, who praises the painting skills of the Tuscan artist in the Abecedario pictorial 1733, and the Abbot Lanzi, who refers widely to the artist in the History of Italy’s Pictorial, Published in Milan in 1831. In the official catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery of 1833 it reads: "He painted with good taste, and with very finished and correct manner in his drawing, seeing in his homeland not a few paintings at private homes, and in public, and particularly in churches. The most esteemed of the first way preserved in the Badia, and in Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, to judgment of the Orlandi. After the imitation of the master, which is the first exercise of the new painters, and often still, because of the diversity of the natural, the first one was formed, as Lanzi also observes, a second style following his own talent, more grandiose, more ideal, and of greater stain, as the artists exprímono: of which we have several essays in Santa Maria Maggiore, in S. Simone and in various Florentine quadreries."