Francesco Solimena

baroque

Francesco Solimena Paintings 1657 - 1747 Painter, Italy, Baroque

St Bonaventura Receiving the Banner of St Sepulchre from the Madonna, 1710

Oil on canvas, 94 3/8 x 51 1/8 inches (240 x 130 cm)

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OIL PAINTING: St Bonaventura Receiving the Banner of St Sepulchre from the Madonna, 1710
In Naples in the beginning of the 18th century there flourished a whole school of decorative painters. Solimena, with his crowds of figures swirling through eddies and shades, still belonged to the line of the 'tenebrosi'.