Head of the virgin
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| Head of the virgin |
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| Giambattista Pittoni , around 1730 |
| oil on wood |
| 44 × 35 cm |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg , Strasbourg |
" Head of the Virgin " is a painting by the Italian Rococo artist Giambattista Pittoni (1687–1767). The work, dated around 1730 and measuring 44.7 × 35 cm, is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg in Strasbourg .
interpretation
The closed eyes looking down were a unique and rare representation of the Madonna at the time, this is also repeated in the Pittoni Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Spirit of the London National Gallery Museum. It is possible that Pittoni is looking for further mystical strength, which angered the interpretation of the critic Alexander Nagel of Leonardo da Vinci “Head of a Woman”, in which “The eyes are not focused on an external object , and they give the impression that they are staying where they are: they see through the filter of an internal state, instead of receiving immediate impressions from the outside world. It is the attitude of floating in a state of mind that lies beyond specific thoughts, even without being aware of one's own body ... here an inner life is suggested through a new order of image effects without resorting to action or narrative ”. The extraordinary softness and subtle modulation of the forms, the nuanced gradations of light and shadow reflect the profound scientific knowledge that Pittoni has acquired in the field of optical phenomena.
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literature
- Franca Zava Boccazzi: Pittoni , Mondadori Electa, 1979, ISBN 884351220X
- Michael Fried, The Moment of Caravaggio , La Scapigliata, Leonardo da Vinci, Princeton University Press, 2010
Web links
- Tête de Vierge , Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Map of the Strasbourg Museum, cataloged met het number 563 , May 21, 2020
Individual evidence
- ^ Tête de Vierge , Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Fiche du musée de Strasbourg.
- ↑ Franca Zava Boccazzi: Pittoni, l'opera completa , Mondadori Electa, 1979
- ↑ [1] 73, The Moment of Caravaggio , La Scapigliata, Leonardo da Vinci, Princeton University Press, 2010