{"id":3119,"date":"2019-09-29T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/historical-battle\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T14:03:28","slug":"historical-battle","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/historical-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">PIERRE MIGNARD, CIRCLE OF<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Troyes, 1612 &#8211; Paris, 1695<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Historical battle<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">oil on canvas, cm 80,5&#215;160,5<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The reference to the \u201cantique Roman bas-reliefs\u201d invoked by Giancarlo Sestieri in his description of this work, recently exhibited in a show dedicated to the painting genre of the \u2018battle\u2019, is very fitting. In fact, the battle with \u2018antique-style\u2019 costumes features a typically classical horizontal development, and also the heroic personality shown bare-chested, his hair blown back by the wind, who appears absorbed in a hand-to-hand fight in the foreground is also undoubtedly inspired by classical statues. This particular battle has by retraced by Sestieri to a follower of Pierre Mignard, a famous portraitist and rival of Charles Le Brun at the royal court of France; the usual raising of dust and clamour of the furious frays ideated by Seventeenth-century \u2018battle painters\u2019 is here replaced by a world of noble valour and pure, glazed colours, which is already a prelude to the neoclassical turn of the middle of the Eighteenth century. A painting that is, in our opinion, the work of the same author, featuring <i>David who cuts off the head of Goliath<\/i>, has been presented in the antiquarian market, by no chance with the same attribution to the circle of Mignard (Sotheby\u2019s, 5 October 2001, no. 43).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Publications:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cPugnae &#8211; La guerra nell\u2019arte\u201d, exhibition catalogue edited by Giancarlo Sestieri, Budai Editore, Foligno, 2008, pp. 106-107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1531,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/3119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}