The God Apollo, 17th Century Venetian Painter

17th century Venetian painter
The God Apollo
Oil on canvas
66 x 48 cm. - Framed 80 x 62 cm.

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Apollo, the god of music and science, as well as patron of poetry, is depicted here.

In accordance with iconographic tradition, he is portrayed as a good-looking young man, crowned with laurel, a plant symbol of victory, under which some legends claim he was born. Instead of the lyre, his other typical attribute, we see him here intent on displaying the silhouette of a noble coat of arms, in honour of the commissioning family.

An analysis of the painting allows us to place its execution in the northern Italian school, executed by a Venetian artist in the mid 17th century, although the style is still anchored in the Renaissance dictates of the previous century.

It could probably be a trial sketch for a cycle of frescoes with a mythological theme, typical of the great halls of Venetian palaces; on the basis of a stylistic comparison, it can be compared with the production of the Paduan fresco painter Michele Primon (see the fresco cycles

Villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta).


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