Artwork
The Holy Family
The Holy Family is an oil painting by the Early Baroque Italian artist Giovanni Biliverti. It dates from 1644 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
Giovanni Biliverti's 1644 oil painting depicts the Holy Family, a central subject in Christian religious art.
Giovanni Biliverti's 1644 oil painting depicts the Holy Family, a central subject in Christian religious art. The composition features the Virgin Mary, the Christ Child, and Saint Joseph as the primary figures. By focusing on this domestic grouping, the work embodies the theological significance of the Incarnation and the sanctity of the family unit within the Catholic tradition.
The inclusion of these three specific individuals aligns with standard iconographic conventions for representing the earthly life of Jesus prior to his public ministry.
Technique & Style
Executed in 1644, this religious painting by Giovanni Biliverti utilizes oil paint applied to a canvas support. The work depicts the Holy Family, featuring the figures of Mary, the Christ Child, and Joseph. As a piece housed in the Statens Museum for Kunst, it represents the artist's late period output within the genre of religious art.
History & Provenance
The Holy Family was painted by Giovanni Biliverti in 1644 as an oil on canvas work, created for devotional purposes within a religious context. It entered the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains held today, having been acquired as part of the museum's religious art holdings. The painting depicts Mary, the Christ Child, and Joseph in a domestic composition typical of 17th-century Italian religious imagery.
Overview
Giovanni Biliverti, an Italian painter whose career spanned the late Mannerist and early Baroque eras, completed an oil painting titled The Holy Family in 1644. The work portrays a domestic scene of the Virgin Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus, rendered with the dramatic lighting characteristic of early Baroque art. It is part of the collection of Denmark’s Statens Museum for Kunst.
Artist & collection
Artist
Giovanni Biliverti (surname also written as Bilivelt and Bilivert or other variants; 25 August 1585 – 16 July 1644) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerism and early-Baroque period, active mainly in his adoptive city of Florence, as…
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