Pittore caravaggesco del XVII secolo

Tobiolo and the angel. Oil on canvas, 133x98 cm. Within style frame in lacquered and gilded wood. In the painting we can see more than an echo of the production of Spadarino, a caravaggio scholar whose peculiarity is constituted by the softness of the incarnates due to the way of spreading the color, The monumentality of the figures in this painting is close to the Elemina of St. Thomas of Villanova (Ancona, Civic Art Gallery Francesco Podesti) while the delicate expression of the angel recalls that of the Child guarded by angels at the Pio Institute of S.Spirito in Sassia in Rome; the pose, again of the angel, seems to repeat that of the Adultera in the painting kept at the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona.

cm 133x98