Antonio Bellucci,the scope of - Diana and Endymion

Features

Artist:  Antonio Bellucci (1654-1726) Scope of 

Artwork title:  Diana ed Endimione

Age:  17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Subject:  Allegorical/Mythological Subject

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Canvas

Description : Diana ed Endimione

Oil on canvas. The subject of the picture, taken from the Eroidi of Ovid, and describes the young shepherd Endymion plunged in sleep while it is being visited by Diana, the goddess as a representation of the Moon, that fell to him, went to visit every night. For style and ways of painting, the work refers to the venetian painter Antonio Bellucci: born in Pieve di Soligo (TV) is then formed in Venice, under the influence of Pietro Liberi, Antonio Zanchi and Andrea Celesti, the most important artists in the city on the lagoon in the last decades of the century. The brilliant and rapid career took him later to the imperial court of Vienna, and then at the different principalities habsburg (Dusseldorf, Mainz), and finally to London (his works in Buckingham Palace), before returning to the hometown where he ended his life. He was a typical exponent of the decorative painting of the baroque horse of two centuries. In his vast compositions spectacular - mythological, allegorical, biblical - and in his portraits of nobles, loved to indulge in a sumptuous staging, making a show of certain complicated drapery clinging, of a pungent evidence. In Germany, his painting began to assume an aspect more and more polished until it becomes of an icy luster neoclassical. The work, which have already been restored and ritelata, currently has a small tear with a drop of color at the bottom. It is presented in a stylish setting.

Product Condition:
Product in good conditions, shows some signs of wear.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 69
Width: 50
Depth: 4

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 44
Width: 36

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