Camillo Procaccini, area of - Adoration of the Shepherds
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Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist: Camillo Procaccini (1561-1629) Scope of
Artwork title: L'adorazione dei pastori
Age: 17th Century / 1601 - 1700
Subject: Sacred Subject
Artistic technique: Painting
Technical specification: Oil on Canvas
Description : L'adorazione dei pastori
Oil painting on canvas. The scene of adoration develops around the centrality of the Holy Family, towards which various shepherds and shepherdesses converge, with flutes, sheep, dogs; among them also, in the upper left, another family arriving on a donkey's back, almost an anticipation of the flight into Egypt; at the top right, outside the building, you can see an angel announcing the birth to other shepherds. The work, of beautiful quality, is identical in subject to the painting preserved in the Civic Museums of Pavia, donated to the city in 1838 by the legate Malaspina and also referred to the area of Camillo Procaccini. Ours is also almost identical in size to the twin of Pavia, if not for a few more centimeters attributable to the increase in the size of the frame being restored, which involved the need for a "stretching" of the canvas along it. the edge, as evidenced by an edge analysis. This analogy of subject and size, as well as the same temporal location, argue in favor of the two paintings belonging to the same workshop. Both, however, refer to the "Adoration of the shepherds" of sure autograph by Camillo Procaccini, one of the most vivid of his production, preserved in the church of Sant'Alessandria in Zebedia in Milan, which although with an evident difference in the more vertical development and in the arrangement of the figures, has the same scenic setting and the same way of making the other two twin canvases. The compositional equality of the central group of the Holy Family stands out above all, as well as the same identity of some characters, such as the shepherd boy with the dog in the lower left corner, but also the face of a flute player, that in the background on the right in the twin works with the one almost hidden on the left in the work of S. Alessandro. In the work proposed here as in the twin of Pavia, the evident realism of the scene that details the roles of the characters, the intense plasticity of each figure, never static even when it is still and intertwined with the others in a game of overlapping and color contrasts , the background scenes for didactic purposes, are well placed in Procaccini's adhesion to the Counter-Reformation program promoted by Cardinal Borromeo in Milan, where the Parma artist lived and worked for a long time. The painting has been previously restored and relined.
Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of wear.
Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 146,5
Width: 183
Depth: 2,5