Antique Painting The Crossing Of The Red Sea Oil On Canvas '600

Oil on canvas. Neapolitan school, 17th century. The painting, formerly attributed to Scipione Compagno (1624-1680), is in keeping with his pictorial style (which, moreover, is typical of the narrative imagery typical of 17th-century Neapolitan culture), which depicts scenes and events with countless figures, landscapes, and views depicted in a palette of browns and tans, except for the flashes of color that highlight the main characters in the scenes. The scene, filled with figures, features the Egyptian army in the foreground being overwhelmed by the waters of the Red Sea, while on the shore in the background the Israelites, now safe, watch and celebrate with dances and songs. In the center, further back, Moses stands, raising his arm with his staff, in the gesture that evoked the miracle of the parting of the waters. The painting has been restored in the past. It currently shows a slight loss of color on the left. It is presented in a late 19th-century frame.

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