Massacre of the Innocents

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelliaround 1620

Details

Title: Massacre of the Innocents
Creator Lifespan: 1573 - 1625/26
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Varese
Date: around 1620
Provenance: Archbishop's Picture Gallery, Monti Collection
Physical Dimensions: w144.7 x h149.7 cm
Painter: Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli detto il Morazzone
Description: This painting was mentioned for the first time in the inventory of the Monti Collection in 1650. Since that time, the attribution of the painting to the famous painter from Varese has been undisputed.The particular characteristics of Morazzone’s work emerge both in the vigorous rendering of the figures and in the composition of the scene. The exaggerated dynamic tension of the gestures links this work with the frescoes of the Chapel of the Flagellation at the Sacro Monte of Varese, completed in 1609, justifying the chronological positioning of this work to around the beginning of the second decade of the seventeenth century.
Type: painting
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: Oil on canvas

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