Period: 18th century

SOLD Oil on canvas painting measuring 60 x 80 cm without frame and 72 x 92 cm with frame, depicting an adoration of the Magi by the painter Giandomenico Cignaroli (Verona 1722 – 1793). The painting in question is among those depictions that ensured Italian and European notoriety to Cignaroli. For the courts of Northern Italy such as Milan, Crema, Brescia and Mantua, and foreign ones such as Dresden, Vienna, the painter made numerous studies of characteristic characters and putti that enthralled the public both for their sentimentality and for the pictorial skill. Thanks to the delicate colorism and the sensitive qualities of observation, the painter describes human passions in these portraits. The composition is very versatile and intelligently calibrated in colors, especially in those continuous contrasts between the very light parts and those a little darker, 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 copy of plaster models and prints, and 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 baby Jesus with a dreamy air, being protected and characterized by his divine spirit, dispersing their mind in an almost arcadian world and in any case 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 the drawing where both the wealth of details and a very methodical and rational disposition of each individual character or object emerge; these canvas shows us how the painter has made his own the luminism typical of those great Venetian artists that he met in Italy in Venice in the years 50/60 of the eighteenth century. This composition, probably painted in the years 80/90 of the eighteenth century having been made in the mature era of the painter's artistic career, that is, at the moment in which Giandomenico was able to carefully dose all that good he knew in his various Grand Tours in the most important courts of Europe, is of the finest quality. The paintings and art objects published here are my exclusive property and consequently are always available to be viewed in person, by appointment, in my exhibition venues located in Sanremo and Brescia. The work, like all our objects, is sold accompanied by a FIMA photographic certificate of authenticity and lawful origin; this document identifies the object bringing added value to the item. We personally take care of and organize the packaging and shipping of works of art with insurance allover the world. Dr. Riccardo Moneghini Art Historian