The Infant Christ with the arma Christi: François Duquesnoy and the Typology of the Putto
- Autores: Morten Steen Hansen
- Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 71, Nº. 1, 2008, págs. 121-133
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The writer identifies a terra-cotta of the infant Christ in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, as the work of Cornelis van Mildert. This depiction of the child seated next to instruments of Christ's passion (arma Christi) bears striking similarities with a fragment from a Virgin and Child group in Antwerp, Belgium, carved in the workshop of van Mildert, and under his guidance. The image of the seated child contemplating the arma Christi originated in Rome during the second part of the 1620s or in the 1630s in the circle surrounding Fraņcois Duquesnoy and Nicolas Poussin. This putto moderno differed from the slightly older and therefore more developed putto antico known from ancient sculpture and Raphael's paintings. It was, however, more graceful than its slightly older relative, and, more significantly, embodied a notion of tenderness, moving the viewer toward such a condition.
