Holy Family With San Giovannino, 17th Century, Emilian School

17th century, Emilian school
Holy Family with San Giovannino
Oil on canvas, 42 x 33 cm - with frame 65 x 55 cm

The current Holy Family, with an exemplary organized composition in the form of a rest from the flight into Egypt, is arranged in a background bucolic shaded, a natural and silent scenographic background. Saint Joseph, shown in a collected relaxation, seems to trace the parallel and evocative half-column of the figure caressed by a gleam of the sun, which pierces the shaded wooded idyll. The foreground group of Madonna and Child and Saint John is framed in a pyramid scheme that resolves the loving embrace of the Mother to the older child and the gestures related both to everyday life, in the outstretched legs of the Virgin on the ground or in the trampling pose of the Child Jesus, and to the sacred in the prayerful pose of the little Baptist.