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565 - Attributed to Fray Bernardo Bitti (Italy, 1548 – Lima, Vicer…
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Estimate €9,500 - €20,000
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Attributed to Fray Bernardo Bitti (Italy, 1548 – Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, present-day Peru, 1610) An exceptional oil painting of the Holy Family on canvas. A report containing a study of the work is included. Canvas dimensions: 97 x 80 cm; frame dimensions: 127 x 100 cm. Bernardo Bitti (Camerino, Papal States, present-day Italy, 1548 – Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, present-day Peru, 1610) was a Jesuit coadjutor brother and Italian painter who worked in Lima, Cusco, Juli, Ayacucho, La Paz and Sucre. The Spanish and, more broadly, European influence on the Cuzco School of painting began very early on, when construction of the cathedral commenced. However, it was the arrival of the Italian painter Bernardo Bitti in 1575 that marked a turning point in the development of Cuzco art. This Jesuit introduced to Cusco one of the artistic movements in vogue in Europe at that time, Mannerism, whose main characteristics were the depiction of figures in a somewhat elongated manner, with the light focused on them and an emphasis on the foregrounds at the expense of the landscape and, in general, the details. Bibliography: Various Authors. Painting in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Banco de Crédito del Perú. Lima, 2002; Lavarello de Velaochaga, Gabriela, ‘Plastic Artists in Peru, 16th–17th–18th–19th–20th Centuries’, Lima, 2003, p. 47.
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About the sale GRAND JULY AUCTION – FINE ART, OLD MASTERS AND JEWELLERY
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Auction time 07/15/2026 at 3:00 PM
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