Adoration Of The Magi Giandomenico Cignaroli

Oil painting on canvas measuring 60 x 80 cm without frame and 72 x 92 cm with frame depicting an adoration of the three kings by the painter Giandomenico Cignaroli (Verona 1722 - 1793).

The painting in question is one of those representations that ensured Italian and also European fame to Cignaroli. For the courts of Northern Italy such as Milan, Crema, Brescia and Mantua and foreign courts such as Dresden, Vienna, the painter carried out numerous studies of characteristic characters and cherubs that thrilled the public both for their sentimentality and for their pictorial ability. Thanks to his delicate colorism and sensitive observation skills, the painter describes human passions in these portraits.

The composition is very versatile and intelligently calibrated in the colors especially in those continuous contrasts between the very light parts and the slightly darker ones, where the extraordinary versatility of the artist is evident both thanks to a classical education due to the study of the great masters through the copying of plaster models and prints, both thanks to an unbridled passion for music that made everything faster, more colorful and more ethereal.

The subject of the canvas is an adoration of the Magi represented in an amiable, simple and free way with the magi dedicated to the child Jesus with a dreamy air, being protected and characterized by his divine spirit, dispersing one's mind in an almost Arcadian world and in any case very far from reality where we immediately perceive the overflowing personality of Cignaroli given the strong coloristic impact on the canvas through a clear preference for drawing where both the richness of the details and a very methodical and rational disposition of each individual character or object emerge; these canvases show us how the painter made his own the typical luminism of those great Venetian artists whom he got to know in Italy in Venice in the 50s / 60s of the eighteenth century.

This composition, probably painted in the 80s / 90s of the eighteenth century having been made in the mature era of the painter's artistic career, that is when Giandomenico was able to accurately measure all the good he knew in his various Grand Tours in the courts most important in Europe, it is of the finest quality.

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