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Description: | Esther is one of the old Testament's Jewish heroines, credited with saving her people by interceding to avert the wrath of the Persian King Ahasuerus, and this scene was a favourite during the seventeenth century. Cignani had been the favoured pupil of Francesco Albani, in whose studio he absorbed the tradition of Bolognese classicism established by Annibale Carracci and evolved by Domenichino, Reni and Albani himself. Cignani maintained a flourishing workshop in Bologna in the 1660s and 1670s, employing many assistants and carrying out large-scale commissions. As an artist he was a fanatical perfectionist and a painfully slow and exacting worker, but the results he achieved included an unsurpassed delicacy of modelling and colouring of the flesh giving his figures an extraordinary lifelike quality. Cignani was widely acknowledged in his own time as among the finest Italian painters and enjoyed international patronage. | Subjects: | religion (Esther and Ahasuerus) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cignani, Carlo (Italian painter, 1628-1719) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Zuccarelli, Franco (Italian painter, 1702-1788) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8708... | Go to resource |
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