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ANOTHER PAINTING BY BALDASSARE D’ANNA IN DALMATIA
Zoraida Demori-Staničić
; Split
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The art history in Yugoslavia is partly acquainted with the opus of Baldassare d’Anna, a painter of the Venetian Seicento. One can find his works all along the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia, from Istria and the islands in the northern Adriatic to Hvar, Korčula and Trogir. The authoress deals with a hitherto unknown altar-piece »Madonna of the Rosary« from Gornji Humac on Brač Island, which revealed the painters signature in the course of restoration. This painting, like the others of the same master, has an uninventive composition, with stiff and hard figures and an impersonal and spent colouring. The painting represents the Madonna with the Christ Child on her lap, flanked by St. Dominic and St. Hyacinthus painted iside oval frames, while St. Francis and St. Charles Boromeo are kneeling in the lower part. Differing from the hard and stiff treatment of the central painting, these small ovals with scenes from the lives of Christ and the Madonna are presented in a new, lively and spontaneous way with a completely novel interpretation of light, which is no longer of an enforced impersonal colour, but the basic element of the painting. The light permeats the bodies, stopping at certain points with violent strokes, emphasizing the expressiveness of the composition. The chronology of Baldassare d’Anna’s opus is difficult to reconstruct owing to the fact that here we have an artist whose style is not consequently developed, but who repeats his established artistic treatments. According to documents preserved in the episcopal archives at Hvar, the execution of the painting may be dated between 1627 and 1637.
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Hrčak ID:
159831
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.1980.
Posjeta: 956 *