1872
oil
panel
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Church of Sant'Onofrio, Rome: The Interior with a Cardinal is a 1872 oil by Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni, a Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a church interior with a cardinal kneeling at a wooden pulpit. A man in black stands beside him, and another man in a red and green robe stands by a wooden confessional booth. The room is decorated with ornate paintings and carvings on the walls. The cardinal wears a long red robe and a red hat. The man in black has his head bowed, and the man in the red and green robe looks at the cardinal. The room's floor is made of stone tiles, and there are rugs on the floor. The painting's attention to detail and use of color create a sense of grandeur and solemnity. You might want to learn more about the technique of chiaroscuro.
Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni, or Alessandro Rizzoni (Russian: Алекса́ндр Анто́нович Риццо́ни; 4 February 1836, in Riga – 29 April 1902, in Rome) was a Russian-Italian painter of portraits and genre scenes; mostly on Catholic themes.
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