Luigi Serra - Oil On First Canvas - Reading The Bible - Signed And Dated Rome 1869

Luigi Serra (Bologna, 1846 - 1888)
Reading the Bible
Oil on canvas, 44 x 27.5 cm, signed and dated L. Serra Roma 69 lower right. On the back of the canvas is the inscription: Luigi Serra di Bologna./ La Lettura della Bibbia / Roma 1869. Also on the back is a label in English with shipping information: Young Lady Reading / In Medieval Dress. In its original 19th-century frame.
Bibliography:
F. Sapori, Luigi Serra, Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli, 1922.
Stancari 2018-20, no. 114, p. 136.

This painting will be part of the exhibition The Other Half of the Sky, which opens September 27th at the Galleria de' Fusari in Bologna. The painting will be included in the catalogue, which can be downloaded from the gallery's website. The exhibition is dedicated to women and includes paintings and drawings of portraits, nudes, and genre scenes from the 19th and 20th centuries.