Follower of Giovanni Battista Salvi

Follower of GIOVANNI BATTISTA SALVI; "Il Sassoferrato" (Sassoferrato, 1609 - Rome, 1685).
"Dolorosa".
Oil on panel.
Presents faults.
It has frame of the nineteenth century with damage caused by xylophages.
Measurements: 25 x 17 cm; 33 x 25 cm (frame).
Bust of Mary cut out and highlighted on a very dark background thanks to a powerful spotlight that falls on her face and her mantle, following the line of the Baroque known as caravaggista. However, the features of the Virgin, the modeling of the magnificent mantle and, above all, the coloring of the same, are more reminiscent of examples of the Bolognese school, noted for its classicism and its differences compared to the more tenebrist school of the pictorial baroque of 17th century Italy.
Stylistically it is close to the work of Giovanni Battista Salvi, better known as "Il Sassoferrato" was an Italian Baroque painter appreciated, above all, for the creation of devotional images in which he united the Bolognese classicist current and the tenebrism of caravaggista tradition, with a great variety of models and much diffusion, which often makes it difficult to attribute works to him with certainty. He began his training at the hand of his father, Tarquinio Salvi, extending it with Domenichino. He settled definitively in Rome, soon achieving a certain success for his gentle painting, allowing him to establish in the city an important workshop that would repeat the schemes and style of the master. His work is preserved in important institutions such as the National Gallery in London, the Prado Museum in Madrid, Palazzo Barberini in Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, etc.