Large Antique Painting Venus Paolo Fiammingo 16th Century Oil On Canvas Portrait

Description: Large Painting Antique Venus Paolo Dutch 16 Century Oil on Canvas PortraitThe description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.Pauwels Franck, known as Paolo Fiammingo (Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596)Venus lying in a landscapeOil on canvas (116 x 150 cm. - in antique frame 136 x 170 cm.)The work is accompanied by a critical report by Dr. Federica SpadottoThe complete details of this work can be consulted directly from the following - LINK -The splendid proposed painting sees a refined and sensual Venus portrayed, scantily clad and lying on a red gold brocade drape sprinkled with roses, in a composition with profound symbolic value, and arriving at the perfect representation of the Renaissance woman who, like Venus, becomes an allegory of love, eros, beauty and fertility.The canvas fits into the prestigious Venetian artistic and cultural environment of the second half of the sixteenth century, whose peculiar distinctive trait can be found in its cosmopolitan vocation. This characteristic, as Dr. Spadotto noted in her in-depth study, belongs to the same physiology of the Venetian capital, that is, being a distinctly commercial city and located in a strategic point with respect to trade. Representing one of the liveliest ports in the Mediterranean also meant witnessing the continuous passage not only of goods, but of men, ideas, suggestions coming from distant countries, which influenced not only the taste of its own people, but above all art.This occurred thanks to the circulation of prints, as well as pictorial specimens, plus the stays of great foreign artists and, above all, the permanent residence in the capital of a non-negligible number of Dutch, Flemish and German masters.An emblematic case in this regard comes from Pauwels Franck (Antwerp, 1540 - Venice, 1596), better known as Paolo Fiammingo, who established himself in his native city at a young age - in 1561 he was a member of the Guild of San Luca - and arrived in Venice in 1573 .He resided in Venice from 1584 until his death, although the stylistic and formal references of some of his works have led critics to believe that in the previous years he had undertaken a journey to central Italy, or rather to Florence and Rome, where he would have metabolised the lively cultural debate that permeated these cities and which, however, seemed completely absent in Venice.Here Paolo will be fascinated by the sense of color and the atmospheric component fixed on the canvas by Jacopo Tintoretto (Venice 1518 - 1594), of whom he becomes a collaborator, only to undergo, around 1590, the suggestion of Paolo Caliari known as Veronese (Verona 1528 - Venice 1588), both from a coloristic point of view and with respect to precise guiding characters.The painting in question stands as an illuminating figurative example of what has just been reported, since it revisits the Venetian pictorial tradition through the Nordic filter, which is grafted onto a typical subject of the Renaissance repertoire. In the Venus in the foreground, with a typically Veronese physiognomy, the reference to the Venus with organist, cupid and dog performed by Titian (Pieve di Cadore, 1488-90-Venice, 1576) and now in the Staatlische Museum in Berlin appears as a real homage to the great master. It shares the compositional structure with the latter, with the red curtain that overlooks the goddess and the landscape in the background, although revisited in a strictly Nordic key, according to a method traceable in the Venus with little dog of Ca' Rezzonico, in Venice.In this version of the theme, however, the author still shows himself linked to the Flemish dictates, which in the large canvas under study become a complete synthesis of the aesthetics between Northern Europe and lagoon sensitivity. In the small flowers in the foreground and in the very enjoyable landscape backdrop that evokes the great Flemish masters, the very peculiar Venetian light is clearly perceptible: a true seal, together with the sky taken from Caliari, of the pictorial recipe developed by Pauwels. He creates a smooth cameo imbued with elegance, refinement and expressive happiness at the same time, in which the composed feminine beauty and the landscape reproduced with attention to detail coexist with a fast, lively brushstroke impregnated with light.The painting is in excellent condition, with a beautiful antique frame.The work is accompanied by a certificate of photographic authenticity in accordance with the law.We take care of and organize the transport of purchased works, both for Italy and abroad, through professional and insured carriers. For any additional information, do not hesitate to contact us.Follow us also on:https://www.instagram.com/galleriacastelbarco/?hl=ithttps://www.facebook.com/galleriacastelbarco/The painting in question stands as an illuminating figurative example of what has just been reported, since it revisits the Venetian pictorial tradition through the Nordic filter, which is grafted onto a typical subject of the Renaissance repertoire. In the Venus in the foreground, with a typically Veronese physiognomy, the reference to the Venus with organist, cupid and dog performed by Titian (Pieve di Cadore, 1488-90-Venice, 1576) and now in the Staatlische Museum in Berlin appears as a real homage to the great master. It shares the compositional structure with the latter, with the red curtain that overlooks the goddess and the landscape in the background, although revisited in a strictly Nordic key, according to a method traceable in the Venus with little dog of Ca' Rezzonico, in Venic Quantità 1 Artista Pauwels Franck detto Paolo Fiammingo (Anversa 1540 - Venezia 1596

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