Lodovico Mazzanti

(Roma, 1686 - Viterbo, 1775)

oil painting on canvas by the Roman artist who was a pupil of G. B. Gaulli called "il Baciccia". Mazzanti's training is part of the techniques of the early eighteenth century in Rome with a dialectical relationship between baroque and classicist poetics. In the early years of the eighteenth century he participated in the competitions of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, ranking himself among the best artists and in 1708 he won the First Prize with a commission chaired by Maestro Carlo Maratta. In his paintings, although there is a late Baroque influence, a limpidly articulated compositional score prevailed, tending to isolate the canvas from the architectural elements. Gilded wooden frame with an oval shape inside. The painting is published in the book "Visions and ecstasy", masterpieces of European art between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Skira Editions, page 174 (cat. 83). Measure cm. 150 x 116.