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Late Baroque school
"Our Lady of Carmel"
Ancient painting of the Neapolitan school from the second half of the seventeenth century. Of important measure. The definition of seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting, also commonly known as "Neapolitan seventeenth century", means the historical period within which local painting reached a qualitative level that it had never had in previous years, when the city assumed an autonomy and awareness artistic enough to make it known on the European scene.
Coming from an international auction house
Oil on canvas in a non-coeval antique frame in wood and gold leaf
With certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law and Expertise
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (or also of Carmel, from the Catalan equivalent Verge del Carme, or from the Spanish Virgen del Carmen) is one of the titles under which Mary, mother of Jesus, is invoked.
In Israel
It indicates the Virgin venerated on Mount Carmel since the first friars, who built and named their first church after her and placed themselves under her protection, taking her as their patroness and sister in the intimacy of their daily life. They recognized in her the one to whom the beauty of Carmel is given, the most beautiful flower in the garden of God, the flourishing vine, the most pure and all-beautiful Virgin because she was inhabited by God himself, beauty in Person; and from her they received the gift of the scapular as a sign of her maternal protection for all those who wear it, a guarantee of inwardly putting on Christ and finally reaching - with her sure guidance - the summit of the mountain, the eternal garden of Heaven, according to the traditional promise to Saint Simon Stock: "Whoever dies clad in this garment will not suffer eternal fire".
In good condition, the work is relined, with large cracking along the entire canvas. Ready to be placed and hung.
Size: 93 X 72 cm framed (82 X 62 cm canvas only)
Given the importance of the work, it will be sent only and exclusively with safety packaging and insured shipping
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