Una 'Fuga in Egitto' di Ambrogio Figino

• Autores: Mauro Pavesi
• Localización: Paragone. Parte arte, ISSN 1120-4737, Nº 122, 2015, págs. 36-44
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • It is immediately clear that an unpublished 'Flight into Egypt' in the Molinari Pradelli collection is a work of the Lombard Schools of the early seventeenth century. Formerly attributed to Giulio Cesare Procaccini, it has features that instead point to the hand of Giovanni Ambrogio Figino. Support for this new attribution can be found in the forms of the animated drapery, which recall paintings and drawings from the artist's last period (ranging from the organ shutters for Milan Cathedral of 1590-95 to the works of the early Seicento), together with other aspects, such as the insistence on anatomy in the figures. With its correct authorship recognized, the canvas provides a clearer view of the artist's late phase, showing that he was capable, in a privately-commissioned work, of going beyond the declamatory, emphatic excesses of Michelangelesque idiom found in his more laborious works, such as the organ-shutters or the Saint Victor cycle in Milan.