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Description: | Sassoferrato, or Giovanni Battista Salvi was named after his birthplace in Ancona. He was apprenticed under his father, the painter Tarquinio Salvi. Later he studied under Domenichino at Naples. In 1643 Olimpia Aldobrandini engaged Sassoferrato to paint a canvas for the chapel of S Caterina in S Sabina, Rome, to replace a work by Raphael that has been lost. This, the Virgin of the Rosary (in situ), is perhaps Sassoferato's best-known and most celebrated work. In the 1640s and 1650s portrait painting formed a large part of his work in Rome, and his talent in this genre was evidently appreciated, especially by ecclesiastical clients. From 1650 until his death little is known of Sassoferrato's activity. Presumably he was engaged in producing the numerous images of the Virgin, for which he became particularly known. The vogue for such images, stimulated by the Marian cult of the Counter-Reformation, obliged him to paint them in quantity and to keep a reserve stock to meet the ever-increasing demand. All his known images of the Virgin have now been catalogued, and despite their quantity, they reveal a consistently high quality of execution. The Madonna and Sleeping Child is his most numerous subject, another example of which is at Dresden Sleep of the Infant Saviour, with other examples at Paris and Madrid. There is an identical composition to this Madonna and Child, oil on panel 40 x 54 cms, (Gasta Seriachius Museum, Mantta, Finland) | Subjects: | religion (Virgin and Child) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Sassoferrato (Italian painter, 1609-1685) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8321... | Go to resource |
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