Southern Italy, second half of the 17th century Presumed... - Lot 80 - Ader

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Southern Italy, second half of the 17th century Presumed... - Lot 80 - Ader
Southern Italy, second half of the 17th century Presumed portrait of Saint Rosalie of Palermo Wooden sculpture. 38 x 110 cm This wooden sculpture is similar to the representation of Saint Rosalie exhibited in the grotto of the sanctuary dedicated to her in Palermo since the saint's miraculous intervention during a plague epidemic in 1624. Typical of the Italian Baroque spread from Rome, she is represented here languid in a soft and sensual attitude in which she seems to transcend death. The composition follows the traditional 17th century iconographic scheme that seeks to dramatically strengthen the link between the work of devotion and the devotee: like the bronze representation of Saint Magdalene made by Alessandro Algardi in 1634 for the Royal Basilica of St. Maximin, our saint presents a significant gesture that exalts the Faith. The saint in this horizontal position, with her right arm supporting her head upside down towards heaven, seems, not dead, but at the same time asleep and penetrated by divine grace. This composition was widely used in Rome and then in the rest of Italy. The Maltese artist Melchiore Caffa, for example, depicted St. Rose of Lima in almost the same attitude in 1666-1667 (work exhibited in the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome for the canonization of the saint, a work currently kept in the Convent of Santo Domingo in Lima).
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