Tablet Oval tablet in polychrome majolica. Recto: full scale painting...
Tablet
Oval tablet in polychrome majolica.
Recto: full scale painting with "St. Roch pilgrim sick with plague fed by the dog; top sides, angels. The Saint is sitting on a rock in a rural landscape while the angels are at the sides of a light that comes from above to illuminate the whole scene, the color changes from gold to soft green with touches of blue on the left. The pictorial ductus is part of the production of the "white compendiaries" of Castelli and clearly recalls a painter of majolica, conventionally called "Master of the Annunciation" who signed an extraordinary majolica in 1584 and whose hand is felt until the first decade of the '600.
Cm. 19 x 25.5. Cond: intact.
Castles, Master of the Annunciation (attr); 16th century, last decades.
The interest of the tablet is also part of the history represented here. In fact, the Saint is St. Roch, who is sick with the plague and takes refuge in an isolated place, where he would have died of hardship if a dog, stolen a loaf of bread from his master did not bring it to him every day. The unsuspected master follows the dog and sees the chorus of angels; he immediately welcomes the Saint who is cured and heals. Since then San Rocco has been the protector of dogs.
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Oval tablet in polychrome majolica.
Recto: full scale painting with "St. Roch pilgrim sick with plague fed by the dog; top sides, angels. The Saint is sitting on a rock in a rural landscape while the angels are at the sides of a light that comes from above to illuminate the whole scene, the color changes from gold to soft green with touches of blue on the left. The pictorial ductus is part of the production of the "white compendiaries" of Castelli and clearly recalls a painter of majolica, conventionally called "Master of the Annunciation" who signed an extraordinary majolica in 1584 and whose hand is felt until the first decade of the '600.
Cm. 19 x 25.5. Cond: intact.
Castles, Master of the Annunciation (attr); 16th century, last decades.
The interest of the tablet is also part of the history represented here. In fact, the Saint is St. Roch, who is sick with the plague and takes refuge in an isolated place, where he would have died of hardship if a dog, stolen a loaf of bread from his master did not bring it to him every day. The unsuspected master follows the dog and sees the chorus of angels; he immediately welcomes the Saint who is cured and heals. Since then San Rocco has been the protector of dogs.
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