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18 - Face of Christ Italian school, 19th century Tempera with gol…
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Estimate €500 - €800
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Face of Christ Italian school, 19th century Tempera with gold ground on panel 35 x 27 cm The panel depicts the half-length blessing Christ according to the traditional Byzantine-Italic iconography that spread between the 13th and 14th centuries in central Italy. The Saviour emerges frontally on a punched gold background, with an engraved cruciger nimbus and a robe composed of a dark tunic and purple-red mantle, according to a typology destined for private devotion or the top of complex polyptychs. The work reveals a significant adherence to the models of Tuscan proto-Renaissance painting, showing features that can be traced back to the figurative culture that developed around Giotto and his circle. While retaining elements of Byzantine ancestry, evident in the hieratic frontality of the figure, in the abstraction of the gilded background and in the linearity of the face, the panel shows a search for a greater plastic and human presence of the sacred figure, perceptible in the volumetric construction of the face, in the softer modelling of the flesh and in the psychological intensity of the gaze. The severe compositional simplification and the compact monumentality of the bust also find comparisons in the Tuscan production of the first half of the 14th century.The engraved gold background, still strongly indebted to the Byzantine tradition, thus coexists with a language already oriented towards a greater humanisation of the sacred image, according to that synthesis between medieval hieraticism and the new naturalistic sensibility that characterises Giottesque and post-Giottesque painting.Due to its stylistic features, the work can be referred to an Italian painter active in the 19th century, working in the style of Giotto and his circle, probably in the sphere of Tuscan proto-Renaissance culture. Within frame.
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About the sale Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
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Auction time 06/12/2026 at 2:00 PM
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