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Description: | Amorosi worked mainly in Rome, and was one of a group of artists who aimed to continue the realist tradition established by Caravaggio at the beginning of the seventeenth century. His paintings tend to be idealistic, reflecting little social awareness, but instead the influences of eighteenth-century 'Arcadianism'. There is some debate as to whether the child is a depiction of Bacchus, although the bunches of grapes, alluding to the God of wine, and the painting's similarity to Velazquez's famous painting The Triumph of Bacchus in Madrid, would support this interpretation. The cool tonal range of the work is more reminiscent of the eighteenth century, than the seventeenth. | Subjects: | figure; interior; everyday life; mythology (Bacchus?) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Amorosi, Antonio (Italian painter, 1660-1738) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Ceruti, Giacomo Antonio (Italian painter, 1698-1767) Previously attributed to Ghezzi, Pier Leone (Italian painter, 1674-1755) Previously attributed to Velázquez, Diego (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8678... | Go to resource |
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