{"id":2727,"date":"2019-11-02T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/moses-abandoned-by-his-mother\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:11:32","slug":"moses-abandoned-by-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/moses-abandoned-by-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses abandoned by his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gutenslider-p7bfq4ozj\" class=\"wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslider gs-frontend content-change alignnone adaptive-height arrow-style-1 arrow-position-sides arrow-mb-none arrows-lg arrows-md arrows-sm dot-style-1 dots-lg dots-md dots-sm dot-position-bottom is-position-center-center mb-none lg-zoom-icon wrap-auto-height\" data-parallax-direction=\"down\" data-parallax-amount=\"1.3\" data-lg-transition=\"lg-slide\" data-hash=\"\" ><div class=\"eedee-swiper-outer\" style=\"--gutenslider-min-height: 50vh;--gutenslider-arrow-size: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-dot-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-padding-y-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-bg-image: url();--gutenslider-min-height-md: 50vh;--gutenslider-min-height-sm: 50vh;--gutenslider-padding-x: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-padding-y: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-md: 30px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-sm: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size-md: 25px;--gutenslider-dot-size-sm: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-hover-color: #eeeeee;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-hover-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-md: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-spacing: 0px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-margin-x: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-divider-top: 60px;--gutenslider-divider-bottom: 60px;--gutenslider-lightgallery-bg: #ffffff;--gutenslider-lightgallery-font: #000000;--gs-first-pos: 50% 50%;--gs-gap-vertical: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );--gs-gap-horizontal: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );\"><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-top\" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper\" data-settings='{\"autoplay\":{\"delay\":3000,\"pauseOnMouseEnter\":true,\"disableOnInteraction\":false},\"speed\":700,\"direction\":\"horizontal\",\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"loop\":true,\"centeredSlides\":true,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"effect\":\"slide\",\"coverflowEffect\":{\"rotate\":30,\"slideShadows\":false,\"depth\":100,\"stretch\":50,\"modifier\":1},\"fadeEffect\":{\"crossFade\":true},\"zoom\":\"\",\"navigation\":{\"nextEl\":\"#gutenslider-p7bfq4ozj .eedee-gutenslider-next\",\"prevEl\":\"#gutenslider-p7bfq4ozj .eedee-gutenslider-prev\"},\"pagination\":{\"type\":\"bullets\",\"clickable\":true,\"dynamicBullets\":false,\"el\":\"#gutenslider-p7bfq4ozj .eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"},\"pauseOnHover\":\"1\",\"watchSlidesProgress\":true,\"watchSlidesVisibility\":true,\"settingsMd\":{\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"settingsLg\":{\"autoHeight\":\"1\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"hasLg\":true,\"hasLgCounter\":true,\"isFullScreen\":false,\"arrowsFollowMouse\":false,\"lgTitle\":\"none\",\"lgCaption\":\"none\",\"lgThumbnails\":true,\"lgZoomEnabled\":false,\"keyboard\":{\"keyboard\":{\"enabled\":true,\"onlyInViewport\":true}},\"hashNavigation\":false,\"dividers\":false}'><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-center-center ed-bg-image\" style=\"--ed-vw:300;--ed-vh:225;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div bg-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-6189\" src=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/d355-con-cornice-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Giuseppe Mancinelli\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit: cover; 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Castrocielo, 1875<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Moses abandoned by his mother<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">oil on canvas, cm 181&#215;255<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The painting depicts an episode from the biblical Book of Exodus, narrating the abandonment of the infant Moses in the waters of the Nile, a stratagem devised by his mother to save him from the persecution of the Pharaoh of Egypt (Ex. 2:1\u20133). The subject, rich in narrative intensity, is developed by the artist through a carefully balanced construction of figures and surrounding environment, combining emotional pathos with formal composure. The author of the work is Giuseppe Mancinelli, a Neapolitan painter who distinguished himself in religious and historical subjects, characterised by a vivid chromatic intensity derived from the lessons of Italian Purism and the Nazarenes, whom he encountered during his stay in Rome, an opportunity made possible by a scholarship from the Bourbon Kingdom. It was in Rome, under the guidance of Vincenzo Camuccini, that he refined his training, assimilating the Romantic culture of history painting, and thus contributing to the renewal of the Neapolitan artistic scene in the mid-19th century. From 1851 onwards, fortified by the success he had also achieved among aristocratic circles, Mancinelli was appointed to teach drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he promoted a form of classicism informed by Purist ideals, combined with Romantic emotional power and a keen attention to reality, anticipating aspects of the emerging Verismo in painting. This stylistic trait is clearly evident in the present work, particularly in the attention devoted to the faces of Jochebed and Miriam, as well as the infant Moses, and in the thoughtful use of bright, luminous colours that ensured the critical success of Mancinelli\u2019s painting in the following decades. An important testimony is provided by Cesare Dalbono, who, in a tribute published in the Albo Artistico Napoletano in 1853, recalled that the \u201cMoses\u201d had been exhibited at the Real Museo Borbonico in Naples in February 1851, a circumstance that allows the completion of the painting to be placed around that date. The work was later mentioned by Capogrossi Guarna in the artist\u2019s obituary of 1875, where it is remembered as \u201cthe Moses abandoned by his mother, of most splendid colouring.\u201d The painting fully reflects the 19th-century taste for exotic themes and historically reconstructed settings, widely diffused in the visual culture of the period and shared across artistic spheres. In Mancinelli\u2019s work, the foreground figures, rendered with refined academic skill, display traits that suggest an idealised folklore rather than strict historical verisimilitude. In the background, which reveals an affinity with early 19th-century Neapolitan landscape painting, a temple and an obelisk are depicted with notable precision, suggesting careful study, likely mediated through the numerous engravings found in mid-century illustrated guides to Ancient Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The painting comes from the collection of Professor Fausto Nicolini (1879\u20131965), as attested by a label of the Royal Superintendence of the Galleries of Naples at the back of the painting, (\u201cDeposit for protection from war risks, 1940, XVIII\u201d, no. 031).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Pubblications:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIntorno ad alcune opere di Belle Arti esposte nel Real Museo Borbonico nel febbraio del 1851\u201d, curated by Cesare Dalbono, in \u201cAlbo Artistico Napoletano\u201d, edited by Mariano Lombardi, Stamperia e Cartiere del Fibreno, Naples, 1853, pp. 38-39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLa Madre di Mos\u00e8. Dipinto in tela di Giuseppe Mancinelli\u201d, edited by R. Colucci, \u201cMuseo di Famiglia &#8211; Rivista Illustrata\u201d, Vol. 5, no. 2, 9 January 1865, pp. 23-25 (Reproduced as a full-page lithograph at p. 26).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNecrologia del Cav. Prof. Giuseppe Mancinelli\u201d, \u201cIl Buonarroti\u201d, edited by Capogrossi Guarna, 1879, serie II, vol. X, vol. 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