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Description: | The light effects, sweetness and gentle sentiment present in the Virgin adoring the Infant Christ, are characteristic for the Veronese painter Pietro Rotari (1707-1762) to whom this painting is tentatively attributed. Rotari studied in Verona with Antonio Balestra and in c1728 moved to Rome to enter Francesco Trevisani's studio. From c1731-1734 he was in Naples where he worked with Francesco Solimena before establishing his own studio in Verona. In 1751 he started travelling, first to Vienna then Dresden, before being called to St Petersburg to become court painter of the Russian Empress Elizabeth. In his Italian years he developed a typical late Baroque academic style infused with the sentiment typical of the 18th century. The Glasgow work presumably belongs to the Italian period, and should therefore be dated before 1751. | Subjects: | religion (Virgin Christ child); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rotari, Pietro (Italian painter and printmaker, 1707-1762) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8809... | Go to resource |
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