Adoration of the Shepherds
about 1640/43 | Pier Francesco Mola
This scene is influenced by the pastoral or shepherd pieces of the Bassanos, a Venetian family of painters, from the late 16th century. Indeed Mola belongs in general to those artists resident in Rome around and after 1630 who wished to rejuvenate High Baroque painting by consciously keeping in mind the Venetian art of colour painting. The colours toned down to brown, and the warm use of light-dark from which shines the blue-red-white of the group in the middle, produce a romantic mood which yet has something solemn to it.
This scene is influenced by the pastoral or shepherd pieces of the Bassanos, a Venetian family of painters, from the late 16th century. Indeed Mola belongs in general to those artists resident in Rome around and after 1630 who wished to rejuvenate High Baroque painting by consciously keeping in mind the Venetian art of colour painting. The colours toned down to brown, and the warm use of light-dark from which shines the blue-red-white of the group in the middle, produce a romantic mood which yet has something solemn to it.
Artist:
Pier Francesco Mola (1612 Coldrerio - 1666 Rom) DNB
Time:
about 1640/43
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Roman
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
75 x 100 cm
Framed: 95,5 x 120,5 x 5,5 cm
Signed
Inscribed on the bundle carried by the shepherd on the right: P.F.M.F.
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 9117
Provenance
Before 1841 Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle; acquired 1953;