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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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Mura, Francesco de
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Allegory of the Arts (mk05)
Painting ID:: 20707
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Mura, Francesco de
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Italian, 1696-1782
Italian painter. He was educated initially in the workshop of Domenico Viola at Naples, but in 1708 he entered the school of Francesco Solimena, whose favourite pupil and most trusted collaborator he became. At first he followed closely Solimena's monumental Baroque manner, as in the frescoes (1715) in S Nicola alla Carit? in Naples, but later developed a more controlled and refined style of rhythmical lines, light and airy colours and delicate psychological overtones. He employed this new style in his ten canvases of the Virtues and his vast Adoration of the Magi (all 1728; Naples, S Maria Donnaromita) and, above all, in his frescoes of the Adoration of the Magi in the apsidal dome of the church of the Nunziatella, Naples (1732; in situ). De Mura was also active as a portrait painter; his Portrait of the Artist's Wife |
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Canvas 56 x 52''(142 x 132 cm)An over-door for an unknown palace;the musical score included in the subject is one of the six Divertimenti written by Haydn for the king of Naples in 1750 Acquired in 1872 R. F |
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Related Paintings::.
| Laughing boy | La Belle Dame sans Merci | King Charles IV of Spain and his family pay a visit to the University of Valencia in 1802 | |
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