Cifrondi, Antonio (Clusone 1656-Brescia 1730) - Woman

Oil painting on canvas84x105 cm Work without a frame. "In a gaunt and flattened bluish background, the only reference to an external spatiality, emerges from the half-light the figure of an elderly bent woman, with a forehead furrowed by wrinkles and strong arms - tried by hard work in the earth - which outline her role as a peasant. With a sober naturalistic composition, the woman can be considered the true protagonist of the painting even if, in reading her lax gaze - & nbsp; tested by tiredness and age - the observer is invited to focus on the white bird, delicately perched on a perch filled with hay. & nbsp; incarnate, participated in the earthy shadows that help to bring out the plasticity of the figure. The peculiarities of the work, its formal characteristics are affected by the influences of Lombard painting, anto to make it close to those profane subjects so much in vogue in the last decades of the seventeenth century. However, the stylistic code revealed by the chromatic sobriety allows the work to be assigned to Antonio Cifrondi from Bergamo and to place it within the first thirty years of the 18th century. "ASORstudio < / div>